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Preface 






HIS volume includes a short history of 
the best known men in Seattle. We 
hope that it will meet with approval, 
and that no one will take offense at 
anything contained herein. We feel that an 
apology is due our patrons for the tardy ap- 
pearance of this work. The delay was due principally to the difficulty in 
securing photographs of many of those whose pictures appear herein. For 
this reason several of Seattle's representative men are omitted from the 
book, but they will be found in the revised edition, which will be pub- 
lished later. ^ If the above explanation should not prove satisfactory to 
some, we beg to state that a long and varied 
experience in publishing cartoon books fits 
us to make any kind of an apology. So 
please make your choice of apology, and 
consider the same made and delivered. 
fl In the pages that follow the kind reader 
will find no inkling of the trials and aggra- 
vating set-backs we have encountered in our attempt to round up photo- 
graphs and biographies; of the sleepless nights which are still our portion; 
of the harsh words that have reached our sensitive ears over the telephone; 
of the threatened law suits that have come to us by mail, and the reports 
that we were to be imprisoned which have reached us indirectly ; of the 
carload of letters we have been compelled to write to 
anxious subscribers in which we gave the exact date 
(within a year or two) of the book's appearance, etc., 
etc., etc. tj We have purposely left all these things out 
of the book. If any one blames us for this omission, he 
will have to wait until we return from a dense and im- 
pregnable stretch of timber, where we are now beyond the reach of rail- 
way, steamship, telegraph, telephone, or airship, and where we will be 
occupied for months in dividing the immense profits reaped from the pub- 
lication of this book. Incidentally, we will add that as a body we are really to 
be feared. Kindly observe us in our working clothes on l)C>^ 
the title page. •] With assurances that we have tried d^^^ 
faithfully to fill this book with humor of the non-irritat- llsuf^, 
ing brand, and hoping that our efforts will meet your /ay^^J 
hearty approval, we are. 





Gratefully yours, 
SEATTLE CARTOONISTS' CLUB. 




Dr. H. E. Allen 




M^R. H. EUGENE ALLEN is division surgeon of the Chicago, Mil- 
^f 1 waukee & Puget Sound Railroad, chief medical inspector of the 
^b' city schools, and was formerly assistant surgeon in the United 

States Army in the Philippines, from 1900 to 1901. 
fl Dr. Allen has lived in Seattle since 1902. In 1904 he was married 
to Miss Ethel Bagley of Seattle. They have one son, Richard Bagley 
Allen, three years old. 

^ Dr. Allen was born in Wisconsin in 1876. He is the son of 
F. G. Allen and Gertrude Dodge. His father was a native of New 
York and his mother was born in Wisconsin. Dr. Allen received his edu- 
cation in Wisconsin, graduating from the University of Wisconsin in 1895. 
He completed the course at the University of Chicago medical school in 
1898, and came to Seattle after the Spanish American war. 

^ Dr. Allen is a thirty-second degree Scottish 
Rite Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. 



Edgar Ames 



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^0f AVING come from the "Show Me" state, Edgar Ames, as one 
11^ of the younger business element of Seattle, is noted as a university 
11^ and club man. ^ He was born February 26, 1868, in St. Louis; 
was educated abroad at Berlin and Paris, and at home in Andover 
and Yale. He has the degree B. A., and he is a member of the University 
Club, where he resides, and of the Rainier Club, Country Club, Athletic 
Club, Golf Club and College Club. CJ The faith of the Ames family in 
Seattle was shown several years ago, when they became interested in the 
Seattle & Lake Washington Waterway Company, as the principal back- 
ers of that enterprise for the filling of the tide flats and the dredging of the 
East and West Waterways to the Duwamish. ^ At the outset of that 
project for the reclamation of valuable lands in what is now developing 
as a manufacturing center. Former Governor Eugene Semple was the 
leading spirit, and associated with him were Henry Semple Ames, Andrew 
Hemrich, George M. Paschall, Julius F. Hale and D. E. Durie. ^ Edgar 
Ames came to this city as general manager of the company, and under his 
direction the operations have progressed to their present state. Mr. Ames 
is single. 




E. W. Andrews 



' N the fraternity of money- 
changers they say that E. W. 
Andrews, President of the 
Seattle National Bank, is one 
of the best bankers in the West — 
and most men hold the praise of their 
own profession as higher than any 
encomiums that might be offered by the un-elect. 
^ Certain it is that Mr. Andrews understands to a rare degree the in- 
tricacies of finance, but as well he is equipped with a personality and a 
manner that give him lots of friends, and prove to the contrary the pop- 
ular belief that bankers are cold, unapproachable and distant. 

€| Before the consolidation of the Seattle National 
Bank with the Puget Sound National, making one of the largest banking 
institutions upon the Pacific Coast, Mr. Andrews occupied the same po- 
sition as now, while President Jacob Furth, of the Puget Sound Bank, 
became chairman of the board of directors of the merger. 

<I Mr. Andrews is known in 
all the better known clubs — the Rainier, Golf, Country, etc. — and as 
well is an enthusiastic automobilist. 



George R. Andrews 




i^fc^HAT Seattle is a young man's town was exemplified in George R. 
^ \ Andrews, one of the best known of the younger business men. For 
^^" the last five years Mr. Andrews lived in Seattle, and represented 
through all the Northwest the interests of the Burroughs Adding 
Machine Company, whose remarkable instruments are seen in clearing houses, 
banks, government offices and all sorts of business establishments. They 
have become almost as common as the cash register, and have saved from 
silver many heads that today carry the original hair color. Mr. Andrews' 
activity had made this department of the company one of the most success- 
ful throughout the country. ^ He was prominent in social circles, and a 
member of the Rainier Club, the Seattle Golf Club, and the Seattle Coun- 
try Club. His parents were natives of the Virginias, his own birthplace be- 
ing Shepherdstown, West Virginia. Mr. Andrews' office was in the Henry 
Building. He was of the Republican party. ^ In the loss of George R. 
Andrews, who was the victim of an automobile accident late at night July 
12, 191 I, the business interests and club circles of Seattle were deprived 
of one of their most engaging and popular members. 



J. F. Appleton 



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OHN FRANCIS 
APPLE TON. 
head of the Ap- 
pleton Company, 




until three years ago was 
prominent in the state of 
North Dakota as a bank- 
er and property owner. 
Three years ago he re- 
moved to this city and 
founded the Appleton 
Company, Inc., of which ' 
he is President. This 
company handles in- 
vestments and transacts 

a large volume of business. ^ Mr. Appleton was born in London, Ont., 
in 1876. His father, Albert Francis Appleton, was an Englishman, and 
his mother, Martha Appleton, a native of Ontario. The family removed 
later to the Territory of North Dakota and the father became a member 
of the Constitutional Convention admitting North Dakota to statehood. 
Later he served as a Senator of that state. ^ John Francis Appleton re- 
ceived his education in the public schools of Crystal Springs, N. D., and 
in Minneapolis. A member of the Republican party, he interested himself 
in the destinies of Crystal Springs, conducting a banking business and 
serving as Vice-President and Cashier of the First National Bank of 
Crystal Springs until the fall of 1907. He also served as Treasurer 
of the city and as Chairman of the School Board. ^ Mr. Appleton was 
married August 7, 1901, to Marion Wallace Cameron. They have 
three children, John Albert, 8 years old ; Marion Bremner, 4 years old, 
and Wallace Cameron, a year old. f^ In addition to his extensive in- 
vestment business in Seattle, Mr. Appleton is handling farm and timber 
lands along the new Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad of Canada. 



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^g^ OUR years' residence in Seattle has served to make M. A. Arnold 
■^^^ a prominent figure in the city's financial life. As president of the 
Jl First National Bank he has kept that institution well to the front 

among Seattle's financial organizations. 
^ James D. Hoge was a former president of the First National, and 
more recently Lester Turner's was the hand at the helm, Mr. Arnold 
taking over Mr. Turner's interest upon coming to the city from Billings, 
Mont., where he was also in the banking business. 

^ Mr. Arnold was for a number of years 
bank examiner in Missouri, before spending six years in Montana. 

fl Automobiling is one of Mr. Arnold's chief recreations, though 
he also is an enthusiastic golfer. At the Rainier Club he is a well known 
figure, and he has a handsome residence on the First Hill. 

^ The First National Bank 
formerly occupied quarters in the Mutual Life Building, but when the Puget 
Sound National consolidated with the Seattle National, Mr. Arnold ar- 
ranged to move the First National to the opposite side of Pioneer Place. 



J. W. Augustine 




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W. AUGUSTINE 
was born at Silver 
^ City, Nevada, on 
September 2 0th, 
1878. He came to Seattle 
eighteen years ago, and 
upon leaving school v^rent 
to work with his father, M. 
B. Augustine, in the gro- 
cery business, and with the 
exception of three years 
spent in Alaska, just fol- 
lowing the discovery of the Klondike, his time and efforts have been de- 
voted entirely to that business. 

^ He is vice-president of the firm of Augustine & Kyer, a mem- 
ber of the Seattle Golf and Country Club, Seattle Athletic Club, and the 
Washington Society Sons of the American Revolution. 

^ He was married in 1902 to Miss Sara E. 
Atkinson, and has two sons. 



Leroy M. Backus 




CEROY M. BACKUS was a lad 
of ten when his father, Manson 
F. Backus, now president of 
the National Bank of Commerce, came to Seattle in 1889. After passing 
through the Seattle schools the young man went to Harvard, where he was 
graduated with honors in 1902. 

^ Entering immediately into business he has made a decided 
success, and is president of the Northwestern Contract Company, and of 
the Lake Chelan Sand Company. 

CJ He is a member of the Rainier Club, of the Golf 
Club, and of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. 

^ He married Miss Edith H. Boetzkes in July, 1906, and two years 
later their one child was born, Emma Helen Backus. Little Miss Backus' 
father is a native of Union Springs, N. Y., where his mother, who died 
when he was live years of age, was also born. 

^ Mr. Backus is interested with his father 
in various ways, and has valuable holdings in the irrigated lands of eastern 
Washington. 




M. F. Backus 



ANSON FRANKLIN BACKUS, pres- 
ident of the National Bank of Commerce 
of Seattle, one of the largest and strong- 
est banking institutions in the West, is 
richly entitled to bear the Colonial name of Franklin, as 
his ancestors were intimately connected with the doings of 
the Colonies from the time the Mayflower landed her 
sturdy stock on the new continent. In 1637 they settled in 
Connecticut, and later took part in the most celebrated of ail the Indian wars, 
that of King Phillip, and then in the Revolution. Mr. Backus was born in 
South Livonia, Livingston County, N. Y., where his father also was born, his 
mother coming from Schaghticoke, in the same state. In April, I 889, Mr. 
Backus came to Seattle, just two months before the great lire. He has been 
identified with the development of banking all through the years of the city's 
most marvelous growth. It was largely through his efforts that the Washing- 
ton National Bank and the National Bank of Commerce were merged. Mr. 
Backus is a Republican, and was named by the governor a Regent of the 
University of Washington. He has one son, Leroy M. Backus. 



George B. Barclay 




6EORGE B. BARCLAY, preseident of the Northwest Lumber 
Company, has become a factor in the Pacific Coast lumber world 
within a short period. He came to Seattle in March, 1907, and 
he, with his associates organized the company that took over the 
mills and extensive timber holdings of A. S. Kerry, one of the best knowm 
lumbermen in the state. 

^ Mr. Barclay's mills are at Kerriston, on a branch of the 
Northern Pacific to the eastward of Seattle, the town consisting chiefly of 
the employes of the mill and of the forces employed in the Northwest logging 
camps in the vicinity. Mr. Barclay is a brother of Congressman Charles 
F. Barclay, of Pennsylvania. He was born in Oswego, N. Y., October 
1 0, 1 840, and in the same city his mother and his father, George A. Bar- 
clay, were born. 

^ In August, 1 868, Mr. Barclay married Miss Elizabeth J. Shafer, and 
they are the parents of four children, Watson L., Georgia E., Lillian B. 
and Beatrice G. Barclay. Mr. Barclay is a member of the Metropolitan 
Club, and is high in the ranks of Masonry, being a Nile Shriner. 




Alfred Battle 



aLWAYS the subject of good roads appeals to Alfred Battle, 
one of the most prominent members of the bar of the State of 
Washington. For years he has been an enthusiastic advocate of 
improved highways, and wherever a convention is held having 
that object in view he is to be found speaking enthusiastically for the 
cause he has espoused as one of the most important to the public welfare. 
^ If his counsel is heeded the state will soon have a complete system of 
arterial thoroughfares. Mr. Battle is an active member of the Seattle 
Chamber of Commerce. During a recent struggle in which the trustees 
were placed on the defensive he conducted the argument in their behalf, 
and was sustained by an overwhelming vote at probably the largest meeting 
ever held by that organization, t^ He is a keen logician, and a convincing 
orator. These qualities have carried him to the front in his profession. 
The history of the Seattle bar shows that Mr. Battle has been connected 
with nearly every case of importance during an interval of twenty years. 
He is a member of the firm of Roberts, Battle, Hurlbert & Tennant. 
^ He was born in McLennan County, Texas, March 22, 1858, and 
was educated in Waco University, having been graduated at the head 
of his class in 1878. He was admitted to the bar in Marlin, Texas, and 
entered into practice with his father at Waco. In I 888 he came to Seattle. 
In politics, Mr. Battle is a Democrat, and is high in the councils of that 
party. He is married. 




Thos. F. Bevington 



HOMAS F. BEVINGTON 
confesses to having no 
other hobby but hard work. 
And hard work has given him 
an enviable reputation in the legal profes- 
sion. For a number of years he was 
counsel at Sioux City, la., for the Chicago 
& Northwestern Railway, and for the Armour 
packing interests. 

^ Although he has been a resident of Seattle 
-f only a few years, he has gained merited recognition at the 

Vy King County bar. 

^ Mr. Bevington's father, James H. Bevington, was a native 
of Ohio, but the family was living in Iowa when the son was born. 

C[ The young man was graduated from 
the scientific course of the Iowa State College, at Ames, in 1884, and 
from the law course of the Iowa State University, at Iowa City, two years 
later. Then he began the practice of law at Sioux City, and within two 
years more was county attorney, a position he held for six years. 

^ After retiring to private life, Mr. Bevington devoted him- 
self largely to corporation practice. Since coming to Seattle he has iden- 
tified himself with the Seattle Commercial Club and with the Chamber of 
Commerce. His offices are in the American Bank building. 



Frank D. Black 




CHE embers of Seattle's great fire of 1 889 had hardly ceased smould- 
ering before the Black Hardware Company, of Detroit, was 
merged with the remains of the Seattle Hardware Company's es- 
tablishment — both concerns being owned by the Black family, 
of Detroit — laying the foundation for the huge concern of today known 
as the Seattle Hardware Company. <I One of the leading spirits in the 
combined organization of that early day, and a director and heavy stock- 
holder today is Frank D. Black. ^ Mr. Black is one of the city's most 
influential and prominent citizens. He takes a notable part in public 
affairs, and gives liberal aid to charitable and other worthy institutions. 
He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Commercial Club, 
and of the Rainier Club, and his handsome residence on Beacon Hill is 
one of the few homes in Seattle occupying an entire block. Q Mr. Black 
has made pleasure trips pretty much all over the world, spending one 
winter on the Nile, and visiting the countries of the Far East. €[ Although 
he is not an officer of the Seattle Hardware Company he is the close 
adviser of his brother, C. H. Black, President of the Company, and 
takes a keen interest in the success of one of the largest business establish- 
ments of the kind in the West. 




William J. Blackwell 



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IIV of the Se- 

■* attle Ho- 
tel Men's Associ- 
ation, and pCesi- 
dent of the Black- 
well Hotel Com- 
pany, which for the last eight years has conducted the Lincoln Hotel, and 
made it one of the most prominent in the city, W. J. Blackwell is among 
the best known hotel men in the Northwest. Varied, indeed, have been 
his experiences. 

^ Coming of a family that had made the vicinity of Princeton, N. J., its 
home since Revolutionary days, and with forefathers who fought against 
King George's Hessian troopers, Mr. Blackwell, when a lad of 1 8, joined 
the federal forces at the outbreak of the Civil War, and as a soldier in the 
army of the Potomac fought gallantly in the battles of Chancellorville 
and Fredericksburg. 

<I Unable to withstand the lure of the West, he crossed the continent 
to California in the late 70's, and for several years resided in Chico, Cal., 
coming northward to Seattle in 1883. Since that time, when Seattle was 
scarcely on the map, Mr. Blackwell has resided here, save for a year spent 
at Skagway, Alaska, when the great Klondike stampede was at its height. 

Q He was there the night the famous 
gambler and desperado, "Soapy" Smith, was killed. Mr. and Mrs. Black- 
well make their home at the Lincoln. They have two daughters. 



Elbert F. Blaine 




CHE irrigation and 
fruit growing de- 
velopm e n t of 
Washington owes 
a heavy debt to a lead- 
ing Seattle lawyer — El- 
bert F. Blaine. Years 
ago Mr. Blaine realized 

that the great seemingly arid wastes of Eastern Washington could be made 
veritable Gardens of Eden by the application of ditch-water, and since that 
time he has devoted a liberal share of his energies to large development 
works. He and his associates owned and operated the Sunnyside Irriga- 
tion canal, which the federal reclamation service a few years ago purchased 
and extended. 

^ Mr. Blaine, with the Denny interests, opened Denny-Blaine Park, on the 
shore of Lake Washington, which is today one of the handsomest residen- 
tial sections to be found in any city in the United States. 

^ Mr. Blaine is a native of Romulus, N. Y., 
though his father, James Blaine, was a Pennsylvanian. His grandfather 
was a captain in the war of 1812. Mr. Blaine was graduated from the 
Northern Indiana University, and from the Union Law School at Albany, 
N. Y. His greatest civic interest since coming to Seattle has been in the 
city's park development. From 1 902 to 1 908 he served as a member of 
the Seattle Park Commission. 

^ Mr. Blaine is a lover of the outdoors, and especially is fond of golf. 
Not only is he a member of the Seattle Golf and Country Club, but of the 
Victoria Golf Club, as well. His other clubs are the Rainier, Arctic, and 
Seattle Athletic. Miss Minerva Stone, in 1 882, became Mrs. Blaine. Mr. 
and Mrs. Blaine have one son. Their handsome home is in the Denny- 
Blaine park. Mr. Blaine has taken an active interest in Democratic politics. 



H. C. Bradford 




CONG identified intimately with the transportation interests between 
Seattle and Alaska, H. C. Bradford is now vice-presid«nt and 
secretary of the Northland Steamship Company, which operates 
the steamship Northland to Southeastern Alaska. Mr. Bradford 
has had an interesting career in connection with the Alaska gold stampede. 
•I 1 he year that tfie Pordand steamed into Seattle 
harbor with her golden cargo he and a number of other Massachusetts 
young men sent a fishing schooner from Boston around South America, 
through the Straits of Magellan, to enter the Alaska trade, and early in 
1 598 the company complete boarded her at San Francisco on their Ar- 
gonautic expedition. 1 he name of the vessel was the Abbie F. Morris, 
and she was afterwards wrecked on the beach of Bering Sea at St. Michael. 

^ For five years Mr. Bradford 
served as cashier of the Pacific Coast and Alaska Steamship Company, at 
Ketchikan, Alaska, and in all spent about nine years in the North before 
coming to Seattle to make his home. 

^ In clubdom, Mr. Bradford is well known, being a 
member of the Arctic Club, the Transportation Club, the New England 
Club, and of the Merchants' Exchange. Sailing and fishing are his chief 
diversions. 



CARL BRADLEY, pres- 
ident and general manager, 
has been in the insurance 
business for many years, 
beginning as an agent in 
the field and rising step by 
step to his present position. 
He was born in New York 
state, moving to Massachusetts 
when a boy, where he finished his 
early education. He has done 
business in the Middle West, in 
the South West and on the At- 
lantic Coast. He was for many 
years an active member of the 
Board of Directors of one of the 
successful Massachusetts Life In- 
surance Companies. 

^ He was the first man 
to suggest and bring about many 
reforms in the policies of the dif- 
ferent companies, as for instance, 
making an industrial policy in full 
immediate benefit, when issued, 
instead of in half benefit as had 
been with all and is now with 
some companies; putting cash 
values and guarantees in small policies, giving the smaller policy holder all 
the rights and privileges of the larger investor ; simplifying the wording of the 
policies and guarantees, and many other reforms of a like nature. 

^ He originated the old age annuity 
policy, payable on the monthly plan, that became very popular at once, 
and a similar policy has been adopted and is now being sold by the savings 
banks of Massachusetts in their insurance departments. 

fl A man of the people, looking always for and giving 
every one an absolutely square deal. A born organizer and one capable of 
drawing around himself high grade men, thus producing splendid results, 
and has been eminently successful in everything that he has undertaken. 
He left a lucrative position in the East to come to the Pacific Coast and or- 
ganize what is sure to be a great interstate company, which will be to the 
Pacific what the giants of the East are to the Atlantic Coast. 




Carl Bradley 




Edward Brady 



— !%■ DWARD BRADY. 
W^ as a young attorney, 

^^r had been in Seattle 

less than a year when the great fire of June 6, 1889, swept the heart 
of the growing city and left it in ashes. He, with thousands of others, put 
shoulder to the work of rebuilding the ruins into a metropolis of world im- 
portance. That Seattle numbers a population of hundreds of thousands 
rather than tens of thousands is due in no small part to the fortitude and 
strength of those who passed through her test by fire. 

^ Mr. Brady is now a prominent member of the 
legal profession. He was graduated in 1 88 1 from the Wisconsin University. 
Fourteen years after he came to Seattle he married Miss Leota Douglas, 
and they have two children, Edward Douglas Brady, now six, and Anna 
Louise Brady, two years old. 

^ Mr. Brady's father came to America from Cavan County, Ire- 
land, in 1833, and his mother followed a few years later. He was born 
in Rio, Columbia County, Wisconsin, May lO, 1859. 



Col. Alden J. Blethen 




COL. ALDEN J. BLETHEN, Editor-in-Chief of The Seattle Daily 
and Sunday Times, and president of The Times Printing Company 
of Seattle, comes of one of the oldest families of this country, his 
ancestry tracing back to 1 680. Col. Blethen is a native of Maine, 
having been born at Knox, Waldo County, on December 27th, 1846. 
^ In 1872 he won the degree of Master of Arts, at Bowdoin College. He 
then conducted a school in Farmington, Maine. At the same time he 
carried on the study of lavs' and was admitted to the bar of the State of 
Maine. In 1880 he removed to Kansas City, Mo., where, for four years 
he was manager of the well-known Kansas City Journal. Thence he re- 
moved to Minneapolis, where his field was enlarged by purchasing an 
interest in two papers. The Tribune and The Journal. Fire destroyed the 
Tribune building in November, 1889. In 1890, he erected the new 
Tribune Building at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars, but the great 
financial panic of 1893 followed so closely after the fire that it brought disas- 
ter to him as it did to so many others and he lost all that he had saved. 
<1 While in Minnesota he served as Colonel on the staffs of both Governor 
Nelson and Governor Clough. Col. Blethen came to Seattle in 1 896, where 
he purchased the plant of a bankrupt daily paper, with a circulation of 
thirty-five thousand. He increased this over fifty-six per cent, in the first year 
and The Times has since steadily grown to its present eminence. 



A. J. Blethen, Jr. 




▲■■ T might be taken from his many activities for the upbuilding and bet- 
II terment of Seattle that we have in A. J. Blethen, Jr., or Joseph 
H Blethen, as he is better known to his host of friends, a full fledged 
Native Son of the Evergreen State, but such, alas for the state and 
also for "Joe," is not the case. If He first saw the light in the town of 
Farmington, Maine, on April 16, 1870. Ten years later he went with the 
other members of the Blethen family to Kansas City, where he remained 
for four years, the family removing to Minneapolis in 1 884. Q In Kansas 
City the young man attended Spalding's Commercial College and entered 
the Minnesota slate university in 1887. He was graduated in 1901 and 
at once went into busmess. In 1 896 he came to Seattle. In that year his 
father. Colonel Alden J. Blethen, became owner of the Seattle Times and 
"Joe" was installed as managmg editor. Since that time he has been iden- 
tified intimately wnth that journal, one of the most remarkable and successful 
publications in America. ^ In 1 902 Mr. Blethen was made associate 
editor and his brother, C. B. Blethen, succeeded him at the managing edi- 
tor's desk. In 1 909 he was made vice president and general manager, which 
he remains to this day. ^ Until his added business burdens were put upon 
him in 1 909, Mr. Blethen gave much time to literary work. His short 
stories became staples in the publishing houses of America and "The Alas- 
kan," a delightful comic opera of the Northland, which is still "on the road," 
was from his facile pen. ^ Mr. Blethen was for five years a trustee of 
the Chamber of Commerce. He served one term as president of the Seattle 
Press Club and is at the present moment, president of the Seattle Ad. Club. 
Also, and this is his proudest boast, he is president of the Seattle Carnival 
Association, which will give to Seattle and the world at large, the "Golden 
Potlatch" of the year 1912, Seattle's tremendous annual celebration. 



Clarence B. Blethen 




CLARENCE B. BLETHEN, known to "the office" and to the many 
of his intimates as "C. B.," was born with an extraordinary "nose 
for news" and a remarkable knowledge of how the reading public 
best likes its news served up, through the medium of its favorite 
newspaper. ^ He has been managing editor of the Seattle Daily Times 
since 1902, and secretary of the publishing company since 1909. With 
his brother, A. J. Blethen, Jr., he is equal owTier with their father. Col. 
Alden J. Blethen, in that publication. ^ There will be no one justly 
dispute the statement that The Times has stood for years as a news model. 
There is scarce a large newspaper office in the country that does not carry 
a "Times page" as a model of what is best to do and that this is so is 
due to "C. B.'s" knowledge of the game and his inordinate capacity for 
hard work at the "desk." He is counted one of the few big news man- 
agers in America who can combine flaring headlines with absolute accuracy 
in news statements. ^ When "C. B." is not at the "desk" he can be 
found somewhere out on the links of the Seattle Golf and Country Club — 
occasionally at one or ano'her of the downtown clubs of which he is a 
member. ^ Like his brother, he has been an indefatigable worker for what 
has been and is best for Seattle and he may point with pride to the new 
Metropolitan Theatre, which Charles Frohman, Klaw and Erlanger builded 
in Seattle solely upon his representations and intercession. 




Scott C. Bone 



^&K N one count, Mr. Scott C. Bone is distinguished above any other 
II citizen of Seattle — he has been president of the Gridiron Club, 
"" Washington, D. C, the most famous organization of its kmd in 
the world. Mr. Bone for years was editor of the Washington 
Post, and after leaving that newspaper he performed a notable feat in estab- 
lishing and placing on a firm basis the Washington Herald. Mr. Bone is 
equipped for newspaper work as are few men in the profession, his long 
experience at the National Capital havmg given him extraordinary advan- 
tages. ^ In Seattle, as editor of The Post-Intelligencer, he has advanced 
to instant favor, on account of his broad views. As a newspaper man, he 
takes the position, "Once a reporter, always a reporter" — in other words, 
that the most powerful and influential mission of the newspaper nowadays 
is to present facts; that the "news instinct" is always uppermost, no matter 
what the position with which a newspaper man may be entrusted. 

^ The Post-Intelligencer, under Mr. Bone, gives ample 
expression, both in its news columns and editorially, to the policies for 
which he has gained a national reputation. 



A. R. Bravender 




aLVIN ROY BRAVENDER is a young lawyer with a genius 
for politics and apples. He is a member of the National Guard 
of Washington, and is making excellent progress in the practice 
of his profession, as well as in fruit-growing. 
fl His father, H. E. Bravender, is a native of La Coile, Quebec, and 
his mother was born near Bismarck, Essex County, Ontario. Her name 
was Rebecca J. Axford, direct descendant of the Axfords of Devonshire, 
who were in England when William the Conqueror crossed the Channel 
m 1066. 

^ Mrs. Bravender's grandmother, on her mother's side, was a cousin 
of the Duke of Argyll. Alvin Van Vliet, first of the family to come to 
America, settled in lower Canada m I 783. 

^ The Alvin of today was bom at Comber, Essex 
County, Ontario, May 24, 1 883. He was graduated from the law de- 
partment of the Syracuse University in the class of 07, and came to 
Seattle early the next year. 

<1| At Lakefield, Ontario, in 1 904, Mr. Bravender 
married Miss Laura M. Brown, and they have three children, William 
Frederick, aged 6; Alvin Roy, Jr., aged 4, and Little Eleanor Margaret, 
who is less than a year old. Mr. Bravender is a Republican. 



Frank E. Brightman 




6RADUATES of the various departments of the University of Wash- 
ington have made conspicuous successes in the professions, and 
especially in the law. Frank E. Brightman is among the number, 
and few young men have made the progress at the bar that has 
marked his admission a few years ago. 

^ He has become one of the best known of the younger 
attorneys, being a member of the firm of Brightman & Tennant, with offices 
in the Lowman building. Mr. Brightman's standing in the legal profession 
is indicated by the fact that he is one of the attorneys named as members 
of the Municipal Plans Commission, which, under the direction of the 
eminent municipal engineer Virgil P. Bogue, prepared a broad and compre- 
hensive plan for the city's improvement to be adequate for the day when 
Seattle will have 1 ,000,000 people. 

fl Mr. Brightman's family came to this city from Michigan in the late 
nineties, and his father is a well known resident of Seattle. Mr. Bright- 
man's marriage took place about five years ago, and he and his family make 
their home on Eleventh avenue north, in the neighborhood of Volunteer 
Park. 



C. C. Bronson 




CHARLES CLYDE BRONSON is one of the substantial figures in 
the lumber world of the Northwest. In the Pacific Coast Lumber 
Manufacturer's Association, he is a leader, being treasurer and head 
of one of the active committees. His company is the Day Lumber 
Company, with offices in the White building. 

^ Mr. Bronson's father, Charles D. Bronson, was born 
in Wheaton, 111., and his mother came from Pennsylvania. He was born 
in Big Rapids, Miss., January I 1, 1868. 

^ Mr. Bronson married Miss Kate E. 
Deming January I 6, ! 889, and to Mr. and Mrs. Bronson have come five 
children, Lois, aged 20; Dorris, 18; Deming, 16; Robert, I I, and Philip, 
aged 9. Mr. Bronson is high in the councils of Masonry, having reached the 
32d degree, and was a delegate to the great Masonic gathering held in New 
Orleans in 1910. He came to Seattle in 1902. 



Dr. E. J. Brown 




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Cms is a biography in which teeth anc3 socialism go hand in hand. 
Dr. Edwin J. Brown is a dentist and a socialist, and as both he is 
not unknown in Seattle. By profession he is a lawyer. 

^ When he has a little spare time. 
Dr. Brown enlivens things by taking a rap at the state dental board. Last 
election he ran for mayor on the socialist ticket, but he was not elected. 

q Dr. Brown 
is the son of Stephen and Margaret Brown, natives of Ontario, Canada. 
He was born in Oregon, Ogle County, III., October 30, 1864. Simul- 
taneously he aspired to be a dentist and a lawyer. April 2, 1899, he 
was graduated from the Western Dental College. At the same time he was 
completing a law education, and in June of the same year, he was graduated 
from the Kansas City School of Law. 

^ Doubly equipped for a professional career. Dr. 
Brown came to Seattle February 27, 1901, and established a prosperous 
business. He also became prominent in the socialist party, where he is rec- 
ognized as a clear thinker vsath the courage of his convictions. 

^ Dr. BrowTi was married 
to Miss Lelia Dell McLellan May 3, 1886. He has three sons, Edwin J. 
Jr., aged 23. Kirk 2L and William C, 16. He is a member of the 
Seattle Athletic Club, Elliot Bay Camp Modern Woodmen, and Colum- 
bia Camp, A. O. W. 



F. C. Brown 




fRED GLIDE BROWN is a young man who has made excellent 
progress. To fit himself for the bar he studied law in the night 
department of the public school system, and is now Justice of the 
Peace in Seattle. And he is almost as young as he is young-look- 
ing, for he is only thirty-three. In 1901 he was appointed president of the 
State Board of Barber Examiners, by Gov. John R. Rogers, and again he 
was given the same appointment two years later by Gov. Henry McBride, 
retiring in 1905. 

^ Justice Brown was born in Morris Run, Tioga County, Penn., July 
I 5, 1 877. His mother had been born only a short distance away, at Tioga, 
in the same county. His father, George H. Brown, was a native of Mans- 
field, Penn. The young man came to Seattle when he was fourteen years 
old, in 1 889. He now has a daughter of just that age, Zana Marie Brown. 

^ The justice is well known among the 
Elks, he is a member of the order of Moose, of the Eagles, of the Woodmen 
of the World, is an A. O. U. W., and is frequently seen around the Seat- 
tle Press Club, of which he is an associate member. 



Francis Herbert Brownell 




^■■^ R. BROWNELL is an attorney and a prominent club and 
W H ^ lodge member. He is a member of a list of social and fra- 
■^ ■■•' ternal orders that looks like a club directory. 

^ Mr. Brownell is the son of Frederic R. 
Brownell and Annie D. Coggeshali. His father was a native of Little 
Compton, R. I, and his mother's home town was Duxbury, Mass. Mr. 
Brownell was born at Little Compton, April 21, 1 867. 

^ Mr. Brownell is a graduate 
of Brown University, class of 1888. On April 14, 1894, he married 
Josephine Noble, of Seattle. In 1 909, he decided to make his home in 
Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Brownell have two sons, F. H. Brownell, Jr., 
aged 1 2, and Kenneth C. Browne!!, aged 7. 

^ Mr. Browne!! is a thirty-second degree Mason 
and a Knight Templar. He is also an Elk, a member of the Rainier 
Club, University Club, Seattle Golf and Country Club, Spokane Country 
Club, Tacoma Country Club and Cascade Club of Everett. He is also 
a Republican, but has never held public office. 



George E. Bryant 




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6EORGE E. BRYANT is one of the select who enjoy the resi- 
dential beauties of the Beaux Arts Village, nestling among the tall 
firs on the eastern shores of Lake Washington. ^ His love of the 
out-doors he gained early in life, as his early years were spent on 
a farm in Anoka County, Minn. ^ Immediately after finishing school he 
found employment with a prominent wholesale fruit and produce house in 
Minneapolis, and five years later was admitted to a junior partnership in 
the concern. Step by step he identified himself with prominent wholesale 
interests, and for a number of years was vice-president and director of the 
Minneapolis Produce Exchange. He was one of the first supporters of 
the Minneapolis Fruit Auction. ^ Mr. Bryant removed to Seattle five 
years ago. Seeing great opportunities open for distribution of fruit and 
farm produce here he organized the Seattle Fruit & Produce Auction Com- 
pany, being its president and manager. The policy of the company is 
to bring producer and consumer into closer relationship by furnishing the 
most economical methods of distribution, and at the same time quicker sale 
of shipments after reaching the market. ^ Mr. Bryant is a member of the 
Commercial Club, and of the Municipal League. 




Judge Thomas Burke 



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HERE are so many enduring qualities to 
Judge Thomas Burke, that a mere enum- 
eration of them would more than fill the 
printed page. In him is found an illus- 
tration of the historic fact that commanding intellect is often associated with 
unobtrusive stature — for when the record is written the sum total is that 
Judge Burke is a citizen of resplendent mental powers. 

^ He is a finished orator; he has served on the bench 
as Chief Justice of the Territory, and he has long been a leader at the 
bar. Always in the critical moments of Seattle's history he has been found 
zealously fighting the battles of the city that since early manhood has been 
his home. 

^ The Burke building, for a long time one of the architectural landmarks 
on Second Avenue, was named for him ; and with that valuable property 
and other extensive holdings he has become one of the most wealthy residents 
of the city. 

^ He was born in Clinton County, New York, December 22, 1849. 
His education was obtained at Ypsilanti (Mich.), Seminary, and at the 
University of Michigan. He came to Seattle in May, 1875; and since 
that date no great enterprise, involving the prosperity and advancement 
of the city, has been inaugurated without his co-operation and advice. 



Charles B. Bussell 




CHARLES B. 
B U S S E LL'S 
foresight and be- 
lief in Seattle 

have made him one of the city's wealthiest men. He knew that with Seattle's 
development as a railway center and world seaport the tidelands of the upper 
harbor would become immensely valuable. When these waterfront areas 
were regarded as almost valueless, Mr. Bussell acquired large tracts. The 
coming of the railways did the rest. But he had already made a success 
in business, in the fruit canning industry. 

(^ Mr. Bussell came to Seattle when it was a village — 
in 1 884. The following year he and Miss Elizabeth V. Adam married, 
in the City of Mexico. They have one son, Wallace A. Bussell, who is 24 
years of age. Mr. Bussell was born January 8, 1 864, m New York City, 
where his father also was born. The family, originally of English and Hol- 
land Dutch stock, has lived in America since about 1 640. 

^ Mr. Bussell is a Republican. His 
extensive holdings make him vitally interested in the growth and up-building 
of Seattle. He is an associate member of the Seattle Press Club. 




Alpheus Byers 



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aLTHOUGH Alpheus Byers was once a member of the city council, 
he expresses the belief that he has since lived that down, and makes 
the solemn declaration that nothing shall tempt him to fall into such 
disgrace again. ^ Mr. Byers has made Seattle his home for the last 
twenty years, coming west from Pennsylvania. He was educated for the 
law at Westminster College, in Western Pennsylvania. ^ The firm of 
Byers and Byers, with offices in the Colman building, is one of the best 
known legal establishments in Seattle. (^ Mr. Byers has a handsome home 
on Capitol Hill, but what he takes the greatest pride in is a most delightful 
summer cottage on the shores of Lake Washington, just south of Mt. Baker 
Park. Visitors declare it is one of the prettiest spots about Seattle, with a 
vista out across the water, the green hillsides, and behind them the gloriously 
tinted heights of Mt. Rainier. 



Ovid A. Byers 




®VID A. BYERS is a prominent member of the Seattle bar, who, 
before local option became an issue in Washington, was a strong 
believer in the absolute prohibition of the sale of liquor. He still 
believes that the only solution of the problem wath which almost every 
state in the Union is wrestling, but is pleased with the advances made by 
the local option movement. 

^ Mr. Byers came to Seattle in October, 1 888, just two years follow- 
ing his graduation from Westminster College. 

<I In 1897 he married Miss Ellen Reid, and three 
children have come to them — John R., aged 12; Martha S., aged 8, and 
Dorothy O. Byers, aged 6. 

^ Mr. Byers was born in Mercer County, Pa., June 14, 1862, 
and it was in the same county that both his father, Ambrose Byers, and 
his mother, Mary McCracken, were born. His grandmother's father, John 
P. Bissell, was a Revolutionary soldier from Connecticut. 

^ Mr. Byers has taken an active interest in 
the Sons of the American Revolution, and is historian for the society. He 
lives in a handsome home at 2 1 00 East Galer street. 



Scott Calhoun 




fOR a long time Scott Calhoun has been known as one of the lead- 
ers among the "Younger Republicans" of the city. He has held 
that mark of distinction while the old order has been passing, and 
parties themselves, in the former acceptation, have almost gone out 
of existence. 

^ When Mr. Calhoun and his associates became young Republicans, the 
established heads of that political faith were no older than is the subject 
of this sketch today. Yet, as if to turn back the hands of time, he continues 
as one of the "Younger Republicans." He is old enough to be gray- 
headed, and young enough to dodge the Osier rule. 

^ Mr. Calhoun narrowly escaped being a newspaper 
man, but after admission to the bar and entry into politics he was elevated 
to the responsible position of corporation counsel, in which capacity he has 
fought and won some hard legal battles for the city in regrade and taxation 
cases. 

^ As a youngster he was keen for sports, and still maintains a lively interest 
in athletic events. He is a convincing speaker, and during his career has 
graced many a banquet and o'.her public function. 

^ Mr. Calhoun is a member of the well-known 
family of that name, which for many years has been active in the business 
and professional circles of this city. 



William M. Calhoun 



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GOOD CALLOW we've 
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CAKING a prominent part in civic affairs, and in the efforts of tlie 
Chamber of Commerce to advance the interests of Seattle, WiHiam 
M. Calhoun, president of the insurance and real estate establishment 
of Calhoun, Denny 6c Ewing, has become one of the foremost citizens 
of the city. ^ Mr. Calhoun's hfe, and that of his parents, is intimately identified 
with the early history of Washington. He was born at St. Martius, New 
Brunswick, in 1864. t| 1 he following year his father. Dr. George V. 
Calhoun, was sent West to take charge of the United States Marine Hospi- 
tal at Port Angeles, and the family lived at Port Townsend for the decade 
following 1866. Dr. Calhoun in 1876 came to Seattle, but in 1880 
moved to La Conner, and lived there until 1896. Though far advanced 
in years he is a familiar and venerable figure on the Seattle streets today. 
Another of his sons is Dr. Grant Calhoun, and a third. Corporation Counsel 
Scott Calhoun. Mr. William Calhoun remained in Seattle when the fam- 
ily moved to La Conner. <IIn 1889 he married Miss Maggie Chambers, 
member of a pioneer Olympia family. They have three children, Helen, 
age 18, Retta D., age 1 7, and George V., 15. 



William Calvert, Jr. 




'AKING a remarkable success 
where many before him have 
failed, William Calvert, Jr., pres- 
ident of the San Juan Fishing and 
Packing Company, may be classed as a con- 
spicuous example of what it is possible for a 
young man to achieve in a short span of years. In the last decade he has 
brought the San Juan Company upward m prominence until now it is one 
of the largest independent concerns on the Pacific Coast, owning many of 
the best trap locations on Puget Sound, conducting canneries and cold 
storage plants, and operating its own fleet of vessels to the halibut banks 
of British Columbia and southeastern Alaska. ^ Mr. Calvert is also 
president of the Pacific Ice Company, and has other extensive business 
interests. His home is at Seventeenth Avenue North and East Highland 
Drive. Mr. Calvert's father was born in Montreal, Canada, which was 
also the birthplace of the son. Mrs. William Calvert, Sr., came to Amer- 
ica from Scotland. The family came to Seattle in 1 889, the year fire 
swept the city. ^ In 1 896 Mr. Calvert married Miss Edna L. Cragin, 
and their trio of children are Laurence C. Calvert, aged 14; Starr H., 
aged 10, and William Calvert, the second junior, five years old. 




John D. Carmody 



30HN D. CARMODY has made remarkable advances in his profes- 
sion for one so young. Born in Cheboygan, Mich., March 21 , 1883, 
he was given an excellent groundwork of education, and was grad- 
uated from the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, with the class 
of 1905. It was in that same year that he came to Seattle, and began the 
practice of law, now having offices at 715 in the American Bank building. 

^ Miss Pearl A. Donovan became Mrs. Carmody No- 
vember 14, 1907. Mr. Carmody classes himself as a Republican, but ad- 
mits that the party man of today is not as strict in drawing the lines as he 
was a decade or a generation ago. 

^ The young lawyer glories in the fact that his 
ancestors were Irish, although his father, Daniel Carmody, was born in Ot- 
tawa, Canada, and his mother, whose maiden name was Miss Anna Fitz- 
patrick, came from Michigan. 

^ In the strong and representative Catholic order of the Knights 
of Columbus, Mr. Carmody has been elected Grand Knight and District 
Deputy. He also is a member of the Arctic Club, of the Seattle Athletic 
Club, of the Seattle Automobile Club and takes a keen interest in his college 
fraternity club meetings. 




E. M. Carr 



^ j^ OR four years, from 1892 to 1896, Eugene Merwin Carr carried 
W^ the rank of Brig. -General, commanding the National Guard of 
II Washington. For several years he was a member of the prominent 
^^ law firm of Preston, Carr & Giiman, and following the appoint- 
ment of L. C. Giiman as general western counsel for the Great Northern 
Railway, Mr. Carr and Hon. Harold Preston continued their associa- 
tion, with offices in the Lowman building. Gen. Carr spent a number 
of years in Alaska, when the gold excitement was at its height, and was 
United States Commissioner at Fairbanks, in 1 905 and 1 906. 

^ The year following the Seattle fire Gen. 
Carr was elected prosecuting attorney of King County, serving two years. 
Gen. Carr's father, Byron O. Carr, is still a resident of Seattle. The son 
was born at Galesburg, Knox County, 111., August 30, 1859. He was 
graduated from the Norwich University, at Northfield, Vt., in 1879, and 
from the Columbia College Law School two years later. 

^ Coming to Seattle he took an active interest in Repub- 
lican politics, and in the National Guard, his connection with the state's 
military arm beginning in 1 884. 

^ In 1 900 Miss Alice P. Preston and Gen. Carr married. Gen. 
Carr is known among the clubs, and stands high at the bar. He is a 
member, also, of the Loyal Legion of the United States. 



Ernest Carstens 




■«^%RNEST CARSTENS, one of the organizers of tfie biggest pack- 

Jf^ ing plant in the Northwest, is of the best type of German- 

^^^ American citizen. Mr. Carstens occupies a position of prominence 

in the business world, and is a leader also of the German-American 

citizenship of Seattle. 

Q Mr. Carstens was born February 3, 1867, in Germany, and received 
his early education in the public schools and a business college of that empire. 

^ He came to Seattle in 1887, and, 
with the exception of a year spent in California, between 1 888 and 1889, 
on account of his health, has made this city his home. In 1 890, with his 
brother, he organized the Carstens' Packing Co. 

% In addition to this business, Mr. Carstens is president of 
the German-American bank of this city, president of the Seattle Turn-Verein, 
and treasurer of three other corporations. He is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias, Foresters of America, Turn-Verein, Arion and Liederkranz 
and I. O. O. F. He is a member of the Arctic and Commercial Clubs. 
^ Mr. Carstens married Miss Ida L. Weiss. He resides at 1 422 Bellevue 
Avenue. 




Herman Chapin 



^^%EW men have had as important a part in the building of Seattle 
^^ as Herman Chapin. Many structures in which he is heavily inter- 
Jl ested stand as marks in the city's progress — notably the Boston build- 
ing, erected by Mr. Chapm and Boston associates just after the Seat- 
tle fire; the Frederick & Nelson block; the Seattle National Bank building, 
in which Mr. Chapin has his offices; the MacDougall & Southwick build- 
ing, and others. 

^ Mr. Chapin has been a resident of Seattle for the last quarter of a 
century, coming West from Boston. He was president of the old Boston 
National Bank, which was merged with the Seattle National Bank. Be- 
ing a great lover of music Mr. Chapin has been a prominent figure in the 
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and was president of the organization during 
one of its most successful seasons. 

^ Also he is well known in the city's leading clubs, and takes 
his longer periods of recreation in traveling. 

^ Not long ago he made a circuit of the globe, 
leisurely visiting the spots that appealed to him as having the greatest 
interest. Mr. Chapin's home is at 655 W. Highland Drive. 




Andrew Chilberg 



^ -g^IONEER of the West. Andrew Chilberg's history has 
■ 1^ been intimately associated with the development of 
ll^f Seattle. Mr. Chilberg has to his credit especially the 
** founding of one of Seattle's largest and strongest flnan- 



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cial institutions, the Scandmavian-American Bank, of which he is still 
president. 

^ In 1879 Mr. Chilberg was named Swedish vice-consul for Washington 
and Oregon, and all through the years he has retained that honorable po- 
sition. Mr. Chilberg came to America from Sweden with his parents in 
1 846, when he was only one year old. The family settled first at Ottumwa, 
la., but in 1863 moved to Sacramento, Cal. 

^ When a lad of 20, Mr. Chilberg went to Nicaragua and 
remained two years, but decided that the States offered a better field 
for a fortune. He returned to the old Chilberg home in Iowa, and there 
taught school, and married Miss Mary Nelson. 

^ In 1875 he came to Seattle. First he was in 
the grocery business with his brother. Nelson Chilberg, on what is now 
Pioneer Place, right near the old Yesler mill. Two years he was county 
treasurer, and later was a member, then president, of the board of school 
directors. 

^ From 1 885 to 1 892 Mr. Chilberg represented the Northern Pacific 
Railway in Seattle, but in the latter year founded the Scandinavian-Amer- 
ican Bank, which now occupies the ground floor corner of the Alaska 
building. 

^ The Chilberg Agency, selling tickets to almost any point in the world, 
was founded about the same time, and Mr. Chilberg is president, which 
office he also holds with the Puget Sound Savings & Loan Company. 



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J. E. Chilberg 



CHERE was a time when J. E. Chilberg was forced literally to swim 
out or die, and that he actually did swim out is attested by his 
subsequent career. It was at the time of the Colima disaster, off the 
Central American coast. Since he conquered the perils of wreck, he 
has been successful since in his business pursuits. That mission had taken him 
to South America with the view of opening up steamship lines between Puget 
Sound and the West Coast; but afterward he devoted his attention to 
Alaska, and at length to the Scandinavian-American Bank, of which he is 
vice president. 

Q He is also president of the Seattle Trust Company and Osborne, 
Tremper & Co., vice president of the Chilberg Agency, and secretary of 
the Pioneer Mining Company, with extensive holdings near Nome. 

^ Mr. Chilberg was one of the moving 
spirits in the construction of the Alaska building, Seattle's first sky-scraper, 
and in the New Washington hotel. 

^ He has never held office, yet his most distinguished public 
service was his term as president of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 
which epoch-making enterprise he guided successfully until it became noted 
far and wide as probably the most complete and the most beautiful among 
the fairs so far given in the New World. 



MY FAITH IN SfATTU 

INVESTMENTS 
HA5 NtvtR BEEN SHAKEN 

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C. F. Clapp 



CHROUGH keen business judgment and faith in Seattle and the 
Northwest, Cyrus Francis Clapp has become one of the wealthy 
and substantial business men of Seattle. 

^ During Seattle's days of most 
active real estate speculation, when fortunes were made by the score, 
Mr. Clapp made wise investments and deals that stamped him as one of 
the most successful investors. He now is possessed of valuable Seattle 
property that makes him more than independent. 

<j) Mr. Clapp is a native of Medford, 
Maine, the date of his birth being July 29, 1 85 1 . He was graduated 
from St. Andrews college, Scotland. He came to Washington in 1 870, 
and for many years made his home at Port Townsend. He served ten 
consecutive years in the State Legislature, the latter eight in the Senate. 
His legislative experience has given him a wide acquaintance. 

^ His marriage to 
Miss W. M. P. Lacey took place January 25, 1873. Mrs. W. W. 
Felger and Miss Caroline B. Clapp are daughters; three children are 
dead, Nellie F., Elva and Alvin Francis. The Clapp family is of 
sturdy Maine stock, both the father and mother of Mr. Clapp having 
been born in the rock-ribbed state. 



V. V. Clark 




414 V. CLARK 
■ I 1 is o n e o f 
IL/^the well 
known min- 
ing engineers and experts of the United States, even though he is still on the 
sunny side of forty years of age. He has inspected mines in every impor- 
tant mining district in the United States, Mexico and Canada since his 
graduation from the Leland Stanford University in the class of 1 898. 

CJ He came to Seattle in 1903, but 
has been out of the city during much of the intervening time, through the 
calls of his profession. He is interested in mining developments in Alaska 
and elsewhere that may make him extremely wealthy. 

^ Mr. Clark was born at Goshen, Ind., July 3, 1872, 
his father, C. C. Clark, coming from Maine and his mother, India E. Jones, 
being a native of Indiana. The Clark whose name may be found on the 
Declaration of Independence, was one of this mining engineer's forebears. 

^ Mr. Clark and Miss 
Laura D. May married in I 899. Their two daughters are Vernice, aged 8, 
and Dorothy, aged 4. Mr. Clark has offices in the Henry building. 




J. W. CHse 






N J. W. CLISE the 
Western Washington 
Fair & Driving Associ- 
ation has a president 
keenly alive to the possibilities 
- g,v^ of blooded live stock in the 
?(^'i,y^ State of Washington. On his 
stock farm occupying a beau- 
tiful site on Lake Sammamish, 
Mr. Clise has some of the fin- 
est cattle to be found anywhere, and he has entered into that pursuit with 
zest and the keen enjoyment of a man who has found his favorite diversion. 

^ In business life Mr. Clise is a leading 
capitalist of Seattle. For a number of years he was president of the Cham- 
ber of Commerce, and has been associated with the material progress and 
upbuilding of the city during the formative years of its growth. He has 
invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in realty and the substantial 
structures in the business portion of Seattle. 

^ Mr. Clise was born in Lancaster, Wis., in 1855. He 
was educated in the schools of that place, and at 20 years of age went 
to Stockton, Cal., where he was in the mercantile business until 1879. He 
then went to Denver, Colo., where he engaged in the lumber business for 
ten years. In 1 889 he came to Seattle, and organized the Clise Invest- 
ment Company. 

<| In addition to interesting outside capital in business blocks and real estate, 
Mr. Clise has engaged in the steamship business as manager of the Globe 
Navigation Company, and has also developed an irrigation project in the 
Selah & Moxee canal in Yakima county. He was married in 1 886 to 
Miss Anna Herr, a native of Lancaster. 



Alfred F. Coats 




aLFRED F. COATS for years has been one of the heaviest log- 
ging operators in the state of Washington, his interests being 
largely in the Grays Harbor district. ^ Within the last year 
he has taken in as his associate Joseph Foardney, congressman 
from Minnesota and the bulwark of the lumber interests at the national 
capital. The company is known as the Coats-Foardney Logging Com- 
pany, its organization being one of the biggest timber movements in the 
southwestern part of the state in 1910. Mr. Coats moved to Seattle some 
years ago to come in closer touch with his expanding business interests. 
^ The tremendous possibilities of the cement manufacturing industry at- 
tracted his attention, and he has made heavy investments through the 
Washington Portland Cement Company, of which he is president. This 
company has extensive works tributary to the Great Northern railway, in 
the northern part of the state. ^ Mr. Coats, who was born in Michigan 
October 13, 1865, now resides in a handsome home at 128 Highland 
Drive, Seattle, and has offices in the White building. Miss Emma W. 
Shultz became his wife in 1897, and they have four children, Esther, 12; 
George, 10; William, 8, and Alfred F. Coats, Jr., not yet two years old. 
Mr. Coats' father Marvin Coats, was a native of Ohio, and his mother 
of Michigan. 



C. H. Cobb 




CIKE most of the men who came to the Pacific Northwest from 
Maine, C. H. Cobb realized that great fortunes were to be made 
from the timber industry, and with a capital chiefly consisting of 
his own energy and foresight he has become one of the wealthiest 
of Seattle's residents. 

^ He is credited with carrying on the largest logging operations 
of any individual in Western Washington, and his timber holdings are 
extremely large. 

^ The magnificent Cobb eleven-story building, at the corner of 
fourth Avenue and University Street, is a monument to his standing as 
an officer of the Metropolitan Building Company, and to his belief in 
Seattle as a place of investment. He is also putting up a fine office 
building on Third Avenue. Most of Mr. Cobb's timber holdings are 
in Snohomish County, where he made large purchases before trees had 
reached their present value. He is interested in half a dozen logging 
and timber concerns, and in a logging railway out from Marysville. A 
close business associate of Mr. Cobb is Frank H. Brownell. 

^ The Cobb residence, 
near Volunteer Park, is one of the handsomest in Seattle. 



Charles R. Collins 




®NE of the men who occupied high place among the officials of the 
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is Charles R. Collins. In busi- 
ness circles he has achieved a notable reputation as an expert me- 
chanical engineer, familiar with the scientific principles underlying 
his work. ^ He was treasurer of Seattle's great fair, a position in which 
he added both to his standing as an acute and able business man and also 
to his fame locally as an engaging story-teller and after-dinner speaker. ^ A 
long time ago his ancestors belonged to the Society of Friends — which ex- 
plains why Mr. Collins happens to be a native of Philadelphia; and that fact 
also may be cited as showing a reason for the skill and thoroughness which 
have placed him among the leading mechanical and consulting engineers on 
the Pacific Coast. ^ Mr. Collins was born January 3, 1 863 ; he was 
educated in the public schools of his native city and Stevens Institute of 
Technology. He came to Puget Sound in I 896 as general manager of the 
Seattle Gas & Electric Light Company, which position he held until De- 
cember 31, I 900, when he went into business for himself. 




Josiah Collins 



10SIAH COLLINS is a married man, a story-teller, a lawyer and a 
lover of dogs. If he did not invent the saying, "Love me, love my 
dog," he subscribes so heartily to the sentiment as to make the pro- 
verb all his own. 
^ His narratives and witticisms have always embellished his career, whether 
at the bar or in the State Senate. There was one occasion when he faced 
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in hostile and belligerent mood and com- 
pelled an audience that packed the room to the doors to laugh at one of his 
stories. 

€[ This engaging trait was revealed conspicuously when Mr. Collins was 
chairman of the committee on ceremonies, special events, music and ath- 
letic sports of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. 

•I In that important capacity he looked 
after all the notables during the three months of Seattle's great fair, and add- 
ed new laurels to the reputation he had already gained. 



Charles T. Conover 




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a UNIQUE distinction is accorded to Charles T. Conover, vice pres- 
ident of Cravs^ford, Conover & Fisken, one of the oldest and most 
substantial real estate and brokerage firms in Seattle. He has 
been called the godfather of the State of Washington. A news- 
paper man by training, he wrote a book shortly after statehood, and entitled 
it "Washington, the Evergreen State." The sobriquet selected by him 
proved to be attractive, and it is now employed universally. Q Mr. Cono- 
ver was born in New York about forty-eight years ago. He has been in 
Seattle almost a quarter of a century, during the greater portion of which 
time he has been associated with S. L. Crawford. ^ Mr. Conover is cited 
as one of the best examples of energetic and business men who have been 
identified with Seattle during its interval of remarkable growth. In tastes 
and habits he is quiet and retiring. Through newspaper work he became 
a master of the art of advertising and publicity, which talent he has turned 
to good account, both for the firm of Crawford, Conover & Fisken, and in 
a larger sense for the entire community of Seattle. ^ Mr. Conover is large- 
ly interested in Seattle's material prosperity, and has property interests in 
numerous other points in the Pacific Northwest. 



John W. Cpniidine 




10HN W. CONSIDINE. of Seattle. Wash, executive head 
of the Sullivan and Considine interests, was born in 
Chicago in 1 863, and was educated in the Catholic schools 
of Illinois and St. Mary's College in Kansas, and later in the Uni- 
versity of Kansas. Located in Seattle, in 1 889. ^ He is the originator 
of the ''Made in Washington" slogan, having constructed the New Or- 
pheum Theatre at a cost of $450,000, every dollar of which was ex- 
pended through Seattle firms. He and his business associate, Mr. Timothy 
D. Sullivan, own or control approximately 60 vaudeville theatres, known 
as the Sullivan & Considine Circuit. C| Mr. Considine is the owner of 
the Orpheum Theatres in Portland, Seattle and Spokane, as well as gen- 
eral manager of the Northwest Orpheum Circuit, in conjunction vfilh the 
general Orpheum organization. ^ He is a philanthropist and president 
of several organizations given to out-of-door sports. ^ Mr. Considine is 
held in high esteem by those who know him for his sterling qualities of in- 
tegrity and fairness to every one and is idolized by his many employees. 



Howard G. Cosgrove ^:?^ 




the 
the 



^fV N his own right 

II Howard G. Cos- 

■I grove has gained 
recognition among 
well-known men of 
state, although the 
family name had be- 
come distinguished when 
he was a small boy through the prominence and abilities of his fath- 
er, the late Governor Samuel G. Cosgrove. His parents were both na- 
tives of Ohio, and he himself was born at Cleveland, in that state, February 
8. 1881. 

^ Howard Cosgrove actively entered politics in the campaign nearly three 
years ago, when his father, then the leading lawyer of Pomeroy, decided to 
run for governor. They made practically a house-to-house canvass of the 
state, vWth the result that to the Cosgrove family has been given the dis- 
tinction of having secured the first nominee for governor under the direct 
primary law. The nomination thus obtained was ratified at the polls. 

^ Howard Cosgrove, as a preparation for the 
practice of the law, served as private secretary to three governors. Mead, 
Cosgrove and Hay. 

^ He has two degrees from the University of Washington, 
A. B. in 1902, and LL. B. in 1904. He is now a member of the board 
of regents of that institution. He has been a resident of Seattle since 1 909. 
He is Republican in pohtics, and is single. 




Samuel L. Crawford 



SAMUEL L. CRAWFORD was a newspaper man before he re- 
I formed and became the associate of C. C. Conover in the promi- 
nent real estate firm of Crawford & Conover. 

<J In Seattle's early days, Mr. Crawford was a star re- 
porter on the Post-Intelligencer. He "wrote items for the paper" under 
the ownership immediately preceding that of L. S. J. Hunt — the most re- 
markable, spectacular and altogether unusual figure that ever became iden- 
tified with Seattle — and it was Mr. Hunt who suggested to Mr. Crawford 
and Mr. Conover — both then on the paper — the wonderful opportunities that 
offered in Seattle's real estate market. 

^ The city was just then casting aside its swaddling clothes and taking 
its place as the Northwest metropolis. The success attending the venture of 
the newspaper men, in spite of the financial crash that so soon followed, jus- 
tified Mr. Hunt's predictions, and the firm has been one of the most promi- 
nent in the city's history. 

^ Mr. Crawford has become a great traveler, his journeyings 
taking him pretty much around the world; he is an enthusiastic golfer, and 
manages to get a lot of fun out of life in general. 




W. L. Cummings 



CHOUGH a young man, W. L. Cummings has made excellent 
progress at the Seattle bar, and is ranked high among attorneys of the 
city which he has chosen as his home. He saw in the West 
opportunity for a young man to succeed, and after his gradua- 
tion from the Columbia University Law School, in New York City, 
he set out for the other side of the continent. 

^ Seattle has often been called a young 
men's town, and the truth is that young men have a more intimate touch 
with the larger affairs here than in almost any other city in the country. 
^ Mr. Cummings was born in Springfield, Ohio, May 
19, 1 88 1 . He gained his early education in the public schools there, 
and then made an excellent record at Kenyon College. When he ar- 
rived on the shores of Puget Sound he was privileged to tack five initials 
to his name — A. B., and L. L. B. At the time of this book's issuance 
he is unmarried. 

^ Mr. Cummings is a member of the Seattle Commercial Club, of 
the University Club, of the Seattle Bar Association, the Elks and the 
Knights of Pythias. His home is at the Hotel Frederick and his office 
in the Boston Block. 



Edward Cunningham 




W^ DWARD CUNNINGHAM is a man who was quick to see the 
fr^j possibilities of Seattle for a ship chandlery business. When he came 
^^^ to (his city in September, 1 897, it was to open a branch for Honey- 
man & McBride of Portland. 
% Seattle grew and the shipping increased until the Seattle branch began to 
look like the trunk of the tree and the Portland business a sort of appendix. 
In 1904, on the death of the senior member of the firm, the headquarters 
of the Pacific Net & Twine Co. was moved to Seattle and the Portland 
business closed up. The company handles ship chandlery and fishing and 
cannery supplies. Its business is enormous. 

^ Mr. Cunningham is secretary, treasurer and 
manager of this company. He was born at Glasgow, Scotland, 1878. He 
is a Republican in politics and has never held public office. 




Frank Dabney 



HEN Frank Dabney 

swears, it is always in 

the name of the Boston 

"Tech." Since his 

father's family was Huguenot and his mother's Puritan, his discourse is 
restricted pretty closely to the scriptural "Yea-yea and Nay-nay," although 
he has been known to say "Yea" oftener than "Nay." He belongs to the 
numerous array who contend, with great show of reason, that the Massachus- 
etts Institute of Technology is doing a more effective work for the moral, spir- 
itual and civic uplift than all the public welfare leagues in America. ^ He 
was three years in "Tech.," class of 1873. He was born in June, 1853, 
on the island of Faval, Azores, a Portuguese possession. His father 
was born on Fayal, and his mother in Boston; and his father, in addition 
to being American consul for the Azores, was a large shipowner and 
merchant. ^ Mr. Dabney came to Seattle in March, 1 900, as assist- 
ant treasurer of the Seattle Electric Company, and remained as such 
until promoted January 1 , 1910, to the position of comptroller. Q Pre- 
viously he had been at Pomeroy, Ohio, where he had been engaged in 
coal mining, the timber business and ranching. In 1 885 he moved to 
St. Paul for active part in the construction of the Chicago, Burlington & 
Northern Railroad. He remained with that company as general cashier 
until its absorption by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, in 1 889. 
^ In addition to being comptroller of the Seattle Electric company and 
subsidiary corporations, Mr. Dabney is treasurer of the Central Oregon 
Improvement Company, owning townsites on the Oregon Trunk line. 
He was married at Pomeroy, Ohio, in 1879, and has two children liv- 
ing, Edith Dabney and John P. Dabney Second. 



Ellis De Bruler 




SEATTLE'S po- 
lice court is not 
what it used to 
be. It is not 
alone that the old time, 
dirty, stuffy court room, 
the bright and particular 
gem of Seattle's diadem, 
the "old " city hall, is 
gone. Something else is 
missing — a sharp-eyed 
man who used to sit 
hunched up before the 
prosecutor's table, bark- 
ing questions and com- 
ments with lightning ra- 
pidity, and running po- 
lice court routine on the 
schedule of a mile a 
minute limited. 

^ Ellis De Bruler is gone from our police court and never again will the 
dear old place seem so home-like to its steady patrons. Mr. De Bruler has 
risen suddenly to be commissioner of immigration, a job under Uncle Sam, 
which is full of honor and consequence. 

^ He held all speed records for police court 
work. He knew every habitual criminal that ever came near Seattle. Old 
timers quailed before his keen eye and caustic voice. He conducted a case 
something like this: "BackagainareyouTomwhatisitthistimedrunkanddisor- 
derlywellwhatyougottosayforyourself? WHAT? Ohshutup. That'sallyour 
honor." Here the court would timidly interrupt to pronounce sentence. And 
under that forbidding exterior, Mr. De Bruler tried to hide a heart as tender 
as any woman's. Ask the old timers, they will tell you of his many acts of 
kindness, of a thousand and one cases where he stepped in and administered 
— not law, but a higher sort of justice. 

Ellis De Bruler was born in Indiana, August 25, 1863. 
His father, John De Bruler, and mother, Elizabeth H. De Bruler, were 
natives of the same state. He was graduated from Cumberland University in 
Tennessee, in 1888, and came to Seattle in 1893, taking up the practice of 
law. From March, 1 898, to September, I 909, he served as city attorney. 
June 24, 1903, he married Miss Alice Resor. He is a Republican in 
politics. 




Robert R. Denny 



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HEN ROBERT ROY DENNY, former president of the Seat- 
tle Rotary Club, left the banking and insurance business to go 
into the manufacture of baby food, a smile passed around among 
his friends, for they wondered why he, last of all, should be mak- 
ing infant pabulum. 

fl But the institution which Mr. Denny established is grow- 
ing like a well-nourished youngster, and gives great promise for the future. 
The product is known as Dennos Baby Food. Mr. Denny is one of the 
charter members of the successful Seattle Rotary Club, was its first head, 
and served a second term as president. So conspicuous were his efforts in 
behalf of the organization that he was made First Vice President of the Na- 
tional Association of the Rotary Clubs of America. 

fl Mr. Denny is a native of CalleJian, Sis- 
kiyou County, Cal., his father being a northern California pioneer and build- 
er who crossed the plains in 1852. The Denny family, English and Ger- 
man in origin, founded the town of Princeton, N. J. 

fl Mr. Denny is 33 years of age. He married Miss Melcena 
Burns, at San Jose, Cal., in 1903, following a course of study at the Uni- 
versity of California. 



Henry Dickinson 




EATTLE is honored in 
numbering among her 
people Henry Dickin- 
son, a son of one of the 
most distinguished members of President Taft's cabinet. Secretary of War 
Jacob McGavock Dickinson. 

^ Mr. Dickinson was graduated with the 1907 class 
at Yale, and soon after married Miss Ida Thompson, of Nashville, Tenn., 
of which city he and his mother are both natives. He is just 29 years of 
age. Mr. and Mrs. Dickinson have one son, Henry Dickinson, Jr., who 
was bom in Seattle, August 8, 1 908. 

^ Mr. Dickinson, like his father, is a Democrat. Asked recently if 
he had ever held public office, he answered that he had — for one day. He 
was an election judge in a Nashville precinct. Replying to a request for 
information regarding his ancestors he gives the startling fact that they are 
all dead. Mr. Dickinson is in the lumber business, being president and treas- 
urer of the Henry Dickinson Lumber Company, Inc., and president of the 
Cedarhome Lumber Company, of Stanwood. He is an enthusiastic auto- 
mobilist, and admits that he has had four machines in the last year. 



George C. Dietrich 




IUST to show you what sort Fl il^ of an engineer and contrac- 

tor George C. Dietrich is'n'.'jl — he built the great Repub- 

lican convention hall in Philadelphia, when McKin- 

ley and Roosevelt were nominated, seating 20,000 persons, in less 
than his contract time of forty days, and his nearest competitor in the bid- 
ding wanted three months for the job. 

tf Few big contractors throughout the country have had the 
practical experience to the credit of Mr. Dietrich. He has operated exten- 
sively in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Vir- 
ginia, and now is carrying forward large works in Washington. 

^ His Eastern building was largely in fac- 
tories of all kinds, spinnmg and weaving mills, linseed oil plants, and the 
like. He also erected the pumping filtration plant for the city of Philadel- 
phia, and the Pennsylvania .'state building at the Louisiana Purchase Expo- 
sition, in St. Louis. One of his most notable tasks in Seattle was the rais- 
ing and moving of the big Eagles' hall building, in the Pine Street regrade. 

^ He is a member of the Elks, of 
the Eagles, of the Redmen, and other secret orders, and of the Seattle Au- 
tomobile Club. His handsome home is at I 520 Thirty-first Avenue South. 




J. F. Douglas 



is the man behind the 
tan Building Company, 



10HN FRANCIS DOUGLAS 
scenes in the great Metropoli 
which has already erected three magnificent eleven-story buildings on 
the Old University tract in the heart of Seattle, with others in pros- 
pect, and numbers of lesser structures. 

^ As secretary and treasurer of the Metropolitan Build- 
ing Company, secretary of the Manhattan Building Company, vice-president 
of the Jones-Thompson Investment Company, and president of the Waldorf 
Building Company, Mr. Douglas has accumulated a great weight of respon- 
sibility, especially for so young a man. He is also a member of the law firm 
of Douglas, Lane & Douglas. 

Q He came to Seattle August 15, 1900, with no capital except a de- 
termination to make good. Two years before that he had been graduated 
by the Yale Law School in a two-year course that had followed his gradua- 
tion from the University of North Dakota. Now he is the confidential ad- 
viser and business associate of figures like Horace C. Henry, C. F. White, 
and others of the wealthiest and most prominent men in Seattle. 

^ Mr. Douglas' father, J. A. Douglas, and 
his mother, Annie Scott Douglas, were bom in County Tyrone, Ireland. 
He himself was born in Goodwood, Ontario, October 30, 1874. He mar- 
ried Miss Neva Bostwick in 1898, and they have three children, John, 
Neva and James. 



Wm. T. Dovell 



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ILLIAM THOMAS DOVELL, known to all his intimate 
friends as "Tom," is a member of the prominent law firm of 
Hughes, McMicken, Dovell & Ramsey, in the Colman Build- 
ing. Mr. Dovell was an active, bright young lav^^yer with the 
predecessor of that firm, Struve, Allen, Hughes & McMicken, Judge Struve 
and United States Senator John B. Allen now being dead. 

^ He is one of the keenest members of the Seattle 
bar, and also has a turn for politics — of the Republican persuasion. 

^ Mr. Dovell is a native of Walla 
Walla, bom there September 21,1 869, and was graduated from Whitman 
College, in that city, in 1 890. Two years later he married Miss Ruth 
Allen, a daughter of Senator Allen, and they have one daughter, Ruth 
Cecelia Allen. 

^ Mr. Dovell's father, John Dovell, was a native of the Azore Islands. 
His mother was a Philadelphian, Margaret Ford. Mr. and Mrs. Dovell 
moved to Seattle from Walla Walla in 1903. Their home is at 1415 
East Roy Street. 




Matthew Dow 



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R. DOW is one of 

our busiest little 

contractors. The 

record of his life is 

spotted with as much activity 

as that of Ex-President T. 

Roosevelt — and then some. 

^ History tells us that Matthew Dow was bom at 

Busby, near Glasgow, Scotland, July 29, 1 849, the son of Andrew and 

Maggie Steel Dow. In Scotland he received his education and learned the 

builder's trade, coming to the United States in 1873. 

^ For some years Mr. Dow 
lived in Texas towns, building most of the public structures and business 
blocks of importance. In I 889, Seattle took his eye. After the fire there 
was plenty of work for a contractor, and Mr. Dow had a hand in build- 
ing a large portion of the creditable business section of the city. He has 
also done a great deal of building for the Great Northern Railroad. 

^ Mr. Dow used to live in Ballard be- 
fore Seattle took that suburb into the family. He was, in 1891, a Ballard 
councilman and framed laws to keep the cows off the streets. Again, the 
enthusiastic populace chose him as mayor of Ballard. 

^ Mr. Dow is secretary of the Sound Investment Co., 
president of the Great Excelsior Mining Co., and a member of the Cale- 
donian Society, A. O. U. W., Elks, Masons, and Washington State Min- 
ing Association. He married Miss Agnes C. Smith and now lives at 414 
Pontius Avenue. 



Dugdale 




^9^ O present a sketch of Daniel E. Dugdale seems foolish and absurd 
M \ — for everybody knows "Dug," and there is and could be only 
^^W one "Dug." There never was an imitation. ^^ From the time when 
the Seattle baseball fan opens his eyes among the billowy mists of his 
bassinet, to the time when the doctor gives the weeping family no hope, 
"Dug" is the one person most in his thoughts. Kingdoms may perish from the 
earth, dynasties fall, or ex-Presidents may sink into black oblivion, but 
the one important question is. Will Seattle win the Pennant? €| The 
rotundity of the somewhat girthsome baseball manager makes his coun- 
tenance beam — or is it the beam that produces the rotundity? — anyhow 
he was never known to frown. <| And as to biography, he was born in 
poetical Peoria, III, how long ago he does not say, and his parents came 
fresh from the Emerald Isle. It was in February, 1 898, that he arrived 
in Seattle, to bring terra firma out of chaos in the baseball world. He 
is the President of the Seattle Baseball Club, and is now arranging for 
next season's streamer. In 1889 he married Miss Mary Alice Gleason. 
And completing this brief sketch, he is a member of the B. P. O. E. 




R. M. Dyer 



«M. DYER is the vice president and treasurer of the Puget 
Sound Bridge & Dredging Company, and may naturally be sup- 
^ posed to have a certain interest in Puget Sound. Any man who 
devotes his capital to driving sticks in the tide flats so that other 
people can cross them dry shod is bound to have a feeling of proprietary 
interest in Washington's inland sea. 

^ History does not reveal anything nautical about 
Mr. Dyer's early life. He was born inland and his taste for salt water 
is cultivated. Maquoketa, Iowa, is the town of his birth, which occurred 
December 12, 1867. He received his early education in the common 
schools of his native town, and later was graduated from Iowa State College 
with a degree of B. M. E., and a postgraduate degree of M. E. 

^ In college My. Dyer became a member of the 
Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Later he became a member of the Royal 
Arcanum. 



Michael Earles 




CHEY used to say that Michael Earles owned half the Olympic 
Peninsula, and had more money than anybody else in Seattle. Of 
course, Mr. Earles disclaims any such indictment, although he ad- 
mits he knows where his next meal is coming from. The truth 
is that he is one of the most successful lumbermen and timber owners 
upon the Pacific Coast; he knows every phase of the board-making 
industry. 

^ Mr. Earles' first success in this part of the country came in Whatcom 
County, where he acquired heavy timber holdings, and as President of 
the Puget Sound Mills & Timber Company, with a modern plant, he 
shipped Earles lumber all over the country. But he realized that most 
of the money of the lumber industry was going to be made on trees before 
the logger had a chance to touch them, and therefore he began acquiring 
timber lands in "gobs" — to use the idiom of slang. So for a great many 
years to come Mr. Earles will have cedar and fir trees to supply the mills 
of Western Washington. 

^ But timber is only one branch of Mr. Earles' activity. He 
has become an immense factor in the development of Central Washington's 
irrigated tracts, is one of the heaviest stockholders in the American Bank 
& Trust Company, and in many ways is prominent and influential. He 
has a handsome new home on Queen Anne. 




Chas. J. Erickson 



CHARLES J. ERICKSON is the genius of the steam-shovel whose 
work has remodeled Seattle. The hills have retreated under his 
attacks, and the sunken spots have become level as a floor. His 
achievements with a steam-shovel and hydraulic gusher have attract- 
ed international attention, and while it is true that he has not done all 
the great regrading work of Seattle, it is equally true that his name will 
always be associated with these tremendous undertakings for which this 
city has become famous. He was the pioneer contractor of the Seattle 
regrade. 

^ Mr. Erickson now is president of the Erickson Construction Company, 
of the Preston Mill Company, of the Swedish Press, the Washington Print- 
ing Company, and the Erickson Realty Company. 

^ His father and mother were natives of Sweden, 
where he was born June 22, 1852. He received his education in his 
native land, where he also was married, in 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Erick- 
son have four grown children, George, Helder, Charles and Jennee. The 
Ericksons came to America in 1 880, settling in Minneapolis, and nine 
years later removed to Seattle. 

^ Mr. Erickson has been eminently successful financially in 
his many enterprises. His home is on Capitol Hill. 



Ernest G. Everett 



V0USE5.MADAM,A 
BAGGY COi°iT win. 
PREvenT CORN'^ON 
Hit ^HOULOtR- 

BLAOES 




■^^ G. EVERETT is a sartorial specialist who converts into a fine 
W^ art the making of men's and women's apparel. Art is the 

/^fer^ feature that predominates in his work, and his article on "Tail- 
oring as an Art," in the Sartorial Art Journal, of New York, 
is regarded as one of the best modern expositions of the subject of dress. 
•jl Mr. Everett's conspicuous place in this book is well earned by his 
remarkable business and professional success in Seattle. One feature of 
this success is attributable to his love of the military style in clothes — 
always popular, with its distinction and dash. This love he gained while 
in the army, as he served through the Spanish-American War, in the 
Philippines, with the Thirteenth Minnesota regiment. ^ After coming 
to Seattle from Mmneapolis, Mr. Everett struck hard luck in the Wall 
Street panic of 1907, but undaunted by a little thing like disaster, he 
borrowed $250 of a friend and opened what proved to be one of the 
most popular tailoring establishments in the Northwest. The first year 
saw him do $18,000 worth of business, and now his books show figures 
upward of $75,000 a year. ^ He now occupies eight rooms or more in 
the Henry building, and carries a staff of between 30 and 40 employes 
during the busy season. He is a native of Port Arthur, Canada, born in 
1877, and was married in 1910. 



Henry C. Ewing 




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^0f ENRY C. EWING is one of the brightest and most energetic 

Im^ of Seattle's real estate men, and Seattle real estate men are re- 

II J nowned for their enterprise and resourcefulness. Mr. Ewing has 

grown up almost as a part of Seattle, for he came here when only 

sixteen years old, two years before the great fire of 1 889. 

^ He passed through the University of Wash- 
ington with distinction, and immediately set out to make a success in busi- 
ness. He is now the junior member, as well as the secretary and treasurer 
of the real estate and msurance firm of Calhoun, Denny & Ewing, and is 
also a director in the Scandinavian-American Bank, as well as in the Puget 
Sound Savings & Loan Co. 

Q Mr. Ewing has handled some of the biggest real estate deals 
ever turned in Seattle. He represented the sellers in the sale of the Alaska 
building to a wealthy Boston investor for $1,500,000. 

^ Mr. Ewing was born in Minnesota, October 
31, 1872. His father. Dr. William A. Ewing, was a native of South 
Carolina, and his mother was born in Illinois. In I 896 Mr. Ewing mar- 
ried Miss Florence R. Snoke, and they have two children, Henry Clarke 
Ewing, Jr., aged 8, and Miss Dorothy, aged 13. 



Pierre P. Ferry 




^g^IERRE P. FERRY is of lineage distinguished on the Pacific 
H J Coast, in that his father, the late Elisha P. Ferry, was the first 
WB^ governor of the State of Washington, as well as one of the Ter- 
ritorial governors. While the father was honored by the Re- 
publican party by the position of chief executive, the son has never held 
office. The latter, as an attorney, has devoted himself to the practice 
of his profession. ^ As secretary of the Ferry-Leary Land Company 
he represents a solid property interest in the city, and through it he has an 
enduring monument in the Leary building, one of the most imposing 
structures on Second Avenue. ^ Mr. Ferry was born at Waukegon, 
111., May 30, 1868. He was graduated from the University of Michi- 
gan in 1 89 1 , and was married in November of the same year. His 
father was a native of Monroe, Mich., and his mother of Thomaston, 
Maine. ^ Mr. Ferry is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. 
He has been a resident of Seattle since November, 1879. 



■sauuit^^itf^fim&i 



Oliver D. Fisher 




N the Fisher Flour- 
ing Mills, recently 
completed, Seattle 
boasts one of the fin- 
est plants of the kind on 
the American continent. 
For it the city is largely indebted to the genius and enterprise of Oliver 
David Fisher, secretary and general manager of the company. Though only 
36 years of age Mr. Fisher has proved himself one of the big business men 
of the Northwest, and his career is an interesting study. ^ Mr. Fisher 
was born in Orleans, Mo., in 1875. He attended the public schools, 
Drury College at Springfield, Mo., and the Virginia Military Institute, at 
Lexington, Va. ^ In 1 903 he was instrumental in organizing the Gallatin 
Valley Milling Company, at Belgrade, Mont., and was secretary-treasurer 
of the company. In I 906 he turned the management of this concern over 
to a younger brother, and coming to Seattle, organized the Grandin-Coast 
Lumber Company, with $1,250,000 worth of timber in King County. 
He became a director of the First National Bank, and was one of the 
organizers and still is a director of the Metropolitan Bank. ^ In 1910 
he organized the $400,000 Fisher Flouring Mills Company, and built 
the remarkable concrete milling plant, with a daily capacity of 2,000 bar- 
rels. Mr. Fisher is the active head of the Fisher-White Henry Company, 
with $200,000 in capital. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Fisher with their two daugh- 
ters reside at 1047 Belmont Place. ^ Mr. Fisher is a Knight Templar, a 
Shriner, a member of the First M. E. Church, of the Golf and Country 
Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants' Exchange, and of the 
Commercial Club. 



Will p. Fisher 



•WOUUDST JOIN 
ME IN A GAME 

OF authors' 




Jll^R. WILL P. FISHER is one of the comparatively recent ar- 
m II ^ rivals in Seattle who has made his presence felt in a way most 
■^ '"•' beneficial to the city and the state. The new Fisher Flouring 
Mills, on the West Waterway, declared to be one of the finest 
and most efficient plants of the kind in existence, is one of the enterprises 
which brought Mr. Fisher to Seattle from Montana, along with his brother, 
O. D. Fisher. Seattle made a special event of the opening of these large 
mills. 

^ Mr. Fisher's interests in Montana were large before he came to 
Puget Sound, and he still is a heavy factor in the Gallatin Valley Milling 
Company. He is a shareholder in the Metropolitan Bank, and is a mem- 
ber of the investment firm of the Fisher-White-Henry Company, at 8 1 7 
in the White Building, where the milling and other interests of the Fisher 
Brothers centralize. ^ A Kentuckian, Mr. Fisher's birth year was 1 869. 
He is the proud parent of four most attractive children, and makes his 
home at 1 203 East Lynn Street, his residence commanding a most beau- 
tiful view of lakes and mountains. He is a member of the Beaux Arts 
Society and the Arctic and Metropolitan clubs. 



Dr. Chas. B. Ford 




Ml^ R. CHARLES BICKHAM FORD is a physician and a 
wf J golfer. He has spent his professional career, since grad- 
^^^ uating from Bellevue Hospital in 1895, in Seattle, building 

a splendid practice. 
^ Dr. Ford is a Southerner. He was born at Shrevesport, La., August 
17, 1873. His father, William Pendleton Ford, was a native of Missis- 
sippi, and his mother, Clara Buckley Ford, was born in Louisiana. 

^ Dr. Ford was married to Katherine 
Eliot Hayden in June, 1903. They have three children, Katherine Dyer 
Ford, 7 years old; William Pendleton Ford, 5 years old, and Charles 
Bickham Ford, a year old. 

^ Dr. Ford, besides being a member of the Seattle Golf and Country Club, 
is a member of the University Club of Seattle. 




S vice president and 
general manager of 
the Pacific Coast 
Company, and presi- 
of the Pacific Coast 
Steamship Company, J. C. 
Ford occupies an eminent po- 
sition among the water trans- 
portation interests from Nome, in Bering Sea, to San Diego, on the south- 
ern California coast. 

•I The Pacific Coast Company owns railways, coal mines and steam- 
ship lines, and is one of the great corporations of the West, while the steam- 
ship company operates many vessels, with Seattle and San Francisco as the 
home ports, and stands out as the greatest transportation figure of the whole 
Western coast. 

^ Mr. Ford has attained his high position through years of train- 
ing, accompanied by special capability for the handling of large affairs. 
He was next in rank to J. D. Farrell when Mr. Farrell reorganized the 
Pacific Coast Company and placed it on a strong business basis, and he 
succeeded to the higher position when Mr. Farrell became James J. Hill's 
western representative in the Great Northern Railway. 

^ Mr. Ford is a great lover of the automobile and the 
open air. He is prominent in the work of the Catholic Church, and is a 
leader in the Knights of Columbus. 




Charles E. Fowler 



^fV F there is a bridge to be built or a difficult engineering contract 

II to be awarded anywhere on the face of the earth, Charles E. 

II Fowler, of Seattle, is one of the men who can figure intelligently 

on the enterprise. He has worked in every state and territory of 

the Union, and his work is known all the way from the Panama Canal 

to the Philippines. 

^ One of his bridges, a third of a mile long, spans the Tennessee 
River at Knoxville, and is I 1 feet above the surface of the water. Mr. 
Fowler has been in Seattle since 1 900, in which year he came to this 
city to take charge of the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Company. 
He is now president of that concern. 

^ In a literary way he has added to his 
wide reputation as bridge builder and engineer, by having written notable 
treatises for technical journals and magazines, and by his authorship of 
"Engineering Studies," a work in twelve parts, giving views of masonry 
structures, and of "General Specifications for Steel Roofs and Buildings." 

^ Mr. Fowler is a member 
of the American Society of Civil Engineers, of the Pacific Northwest 
Society of Engineers, and is a trustee of the Seattle Chamber of Com- 
merce, in which organization he is chairman of the committee on rail- 
roads and a member of the commiUee on Lake Washington Canal. 
He was born in Washington County, Ohio, February 10, 1867. 




Robert R. Fox 



wlIll T P ♦Ig^OBERT RALSTON FOX 

WBlmli '^__ ^(^■-' Ha represents the kind of business 

fflt^^-" -?* ^^P II ■ man most needed in an active 

-Sto-f-^ o '^ =' and expanding city like Seattle. 

Though occupying an important position as Northwest manager for 
the Simonds Manufacturing Company, he takes an interest in the com- 
mercial, political, social and club life of the city. He was a director of the 
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, served as president of the King County 
Republican Club, is a member and director of the Rainier Club, and is also 
a member of the Golf and Country, Seattle Athletic, Arctic and Seattle 
Automobile Clubs. Also he is a director in a prominent bank, and is pres- 
ident of the Wenatchee Orchards Bonds Company. 

Q Mr. Fox is a native of Millington, Conn., 
coming of the colonial Fox family, which founded Foxtown, in the same 
state. His forbear of the same name owned Fisher Island, near New Lon- 
don, Conn., on which the family mansion still stands. 

^ With practical training in his father's lumber milling 
works, the younger Mr. Fox was well fitted to handle sawmill machinery, 
and therefore proved himself most valuable in the Simonds establishment. 
He was sent into the Northwest to open the Seattle branch house in Sep- 
tember, 1898. Mr. Fox was bom in 1872. 

^ His marriage to Miss Maud E. 
Walling of Galesburg, HI., took place when he was 25. They have two 
sons, Robert Ralston, Jr., and John Marion Fox. 



J. IVT^Hiiib, 




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10HN MELANCTHON FRINK is one of the really big citizens 
who has mixed business and pohtics with greater or less success, and 
always more to the advantage of his associates, politically speaking, 
than to himself. He ought to have been governor of the state — at 
least that is the opinion of a great many of the brainy men of Washington, 
and because he happened to miss it was not at all his own fault. 

il The fates were unkind in having pitched 
his opportunity at the time his own party was disrupted, while the opposi- 
tion presented a united front. While the governorship was denied him, the 
fact cannot be overlooked that he has spent rather more than a generation 
in office, laboring earnestly for the public weal. The title "Senator" still 
clings to him because he spent eight years in the upper house of the legislature. 

Q In addition he 
has served five years on the Seattle Board of Education; two years in the 
city council, and five years on the Board of Park Commissioners. He is 
a Republican. 

<J In business life, he is widely known as the founder and president 
of the Washington Iron Works, a manufacturing enterprise in which he is 
interested with his sons. He is not a college graduate, but that fact does 
not debar him from an honored position on a family tree that took root in 
the earliest days of American history. His father's ancestors were French. 
They came to the New World in 1 634, settled in the Carolinas, and after- 
ward took up their abode in Connecticut and New York. His mother's 
ancestors were English. He himself was born in Susquehanna, Pa., Jan- 
uary 21, 1845. He has lived in Seattle since 1875. 




H. M. Frost 



aLTHOUGH H. M. Frost, of the tailoring firm of Frost & O'Neil. 
is just about as active a business man as you will find in town, he 
has an eye to a delightful retirement among fruit blossoms on the 
ideal farm that everybody dreams about. 
^ The place he has selected is in the Wenatchee Valley, and there he has 
ten acres of young fruit trees that soon will come into bearing and yield a 
handsome revenue to the owner. 

t^ Mr. Frost has been engaged in the sartorial art equipment 
business for several years, first in Lewiston, Maine, and for the last nine 
years in Seattle. The firm of Frost & O'Neil has been one of the most 
successful in the city, and now conducts two establishments, one on First 
Avenue and the other on Third Avenue. 

fl Mr. Frost has a pretty home in the University dis- 
trict, and is a member of the University Congregational Church. He has 
taken an interest in the Commercial Club almost since its founding. 



Hermon S. Frye 



CAN YOUTRMT-H- 
FULlV ST'STt TO 
THE JURt TH^T 
VOU DID NOT 
^SSAOUT TH& 
PU\INT\FP. 
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I AFOR-ETMOUGHT ; 




'T'S one thing to announce 
yourself as a lawyer and an- 
other to get people to believe 
it. In a city full of attorneys- 
at-law, Hermon S. Frye, of Gill, Hoyt & Frye, has built up a big law 
practice because he has proved to be a good lawyer. 

^ He started in early, did Mr. Frye. At twenty 
he had completed one university course and was ready for another. He 
didn't waste any time about the second, either, and four years later he 
turned his attention to the world at large, ready to go forth and conquer. 
Seattle was very much in the public eye at that time, since the Klondike 
had just been discovered, and Mr. Frye vnsely concluded that where 
everybody was getting rich in a hurry there ought to be a little law business. 

Q Hermon S. Frye was born February 
19, 1875, the son of W. H. and Amy S. Frye. Both his father and 
mother were natives of Montreal, Canada, but Mr. Frye was born an 
American at Clear Lake, Iowa. 

^ In the public schools and stale university of Iowa, he 
received his general education, and was graduated from the university in 
1895. He took the law course at the University of Wisconsin and finished 
in I 899. Mr. Frye came to Seattle October 1 . I 899. In 1 902 he was 
married to Miss Anna B. Barrington. 



Jacob Furth 




^MVN any volume of success- 

II ful Seattle men the 

H name of Jacob Furlh 
would always be among 
the first. He is one of the 
commanding figures of the 
Northwest. It is likely that 
Mr. Furth, who came to Se- 
attle from California when 

Seattle was a village, foresaw ^, , 

the tremendous development of <j) ^ 

the city on Elliott Bay, but it is hardly likely he imagined the part he 
would have in shaping affairs of the growing metropolis. ^ Coming 
to America as a boy fronn central Europe, Mr. Furth drifted to the 
Pacific Coast, and followed mercantile pursuits. Soon after coming to 
Seattle he established the Puget Sound National Bank, serving as its 
president for more than a score of years. While he was a foremost 
figure in Seattle's banking world, he was more than a banker. Seeing 
the opportunity of consolidating the various street railway concerns of 
Seattle — there were once thirteen companies — Mr. Furth interested the 
Stone & Webster people of Boston in the enterprise, and the Seattle Elec- 
tric Company was the result, with Mr. Furth as president. ^ Then 
followed the extension of the Stone & Webster operations until their 
holdings, with Mr. Furth as a factor, include the Bellingham and Tacoma 
street railway systems, the Puget Sound Electric Company (Seattle- 
Tacoma Interurban), the Seattle-Everett Interurban, the Electron power 
plant, and the new White River power plant, which ultimately will 
develop upwards of 1 00,000 horsepower, and be the biggest individual 
plant in America. ^ When the Puget Sound National Bank was 
merged with the Seattle National Bank Mr. Furth became chairman of 
the board of directors. No higher tribute was ever paid to a man's per- 
sonal integrity and honesty than was accorded Mr. Furth by the people 
of Boston, who at the time of the San Francisco earthquake placed their 
entire relief fund, amounting to scores of thousands of dollars, in Mr. 
Furth's hands, giving him entire discretion in its distribution among the 
sufferers. 



Masajiro Furuya 




2 



HERE are a number of Japanese gentlemen in Seattle who have 
built large business enterprises and taken a leading part in the de- 
velopment of the city. Masajiro Furuya is one who stands in the 
front rank. 



^ He is the head of the M. Furuya company, a great exporting and im- 
porting firm which also conducts a banking business. From a modest be- 
ginning this company has developed a wholesale trade which is an impor- 
tant factor in the commercial world. 

^ M. Furuya was born at Yamanashi-Ken, Japan, in 
November, 1863. He is the son of H. Furuya and K. Furuya, both na- 
tives of Yamanashi-Ken. Mr. Furuya came to Seattle in the year of the big 
fire, 1 889, and at that time founded the business which bears his name. 
In July, 1 904, Mr. Furuya was married to Miss H. Shibata. They have 
two daughters, Masa Furuya. five years old, and Kimi Furuya, aged three. 




Cassius E. Gates 



CASSIUS E. GATES is an attorney who makes a success by keep- 
ing his clients out of trouble rather than by extricating them after 
they have fallen into it. He believes in the theory of an ounce of 
prevention, and, no doubt, charges accordingly. 
^Mr. Gates practises commercial law almost exclusively, although he has 
had notable success in several sensational actions of recent date. In addi- 
tion to his law business, he is the superintendent of the local agency of the 
International Mercantile & Bond Co. 

^ Mr. Gates is the son of Emerson Gates and Emma Jane 
Gray Gates, and he was born in Minnesota. He received his early educa- 
tion in the common schools of that state, and was graduated from the 
University of Minnesota. He came to Seattle early in I 909. 

Q Mr. Gates is married. He is a 
progressive Republican in politics and has never sought public office. 




James S. Gibson 



^■B E sailed into Seattle har- 

11^ bor when you and I 

H^ were mere idle young 

fellows and it looked 

good to him. Later, he came 

back to stay. 

<J Being a shipmaster, he 
cannot live too far from the water, 
and the present biography finds him engaged in a stevedoring business, 
the largest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, and connected with the 
largest wooden dock in the world. He is President and Manager of the 
International Stevedore Company, and Vice-President of the Grand Trunk 
Pacific Dock Company. 

^ Captain Gibson was born at Mobile, Ala., September 7, 
1856. His father, James S. Gibson, was born at Dumfries, Scotland. 
His mother, Antoinette J. Gibson, was a native daughter of New York. 
After a grade school education, he was graduated from the University of 
Mississippi at Oxford, Miss., and started to follow the sea for a liveli- 
hood, in the good old days of saihng ships. He first came to Seattle 
as master of a vessel in 1884, and twenty years later came back again 
to make this city his home. 

^ In the same year that Captain Gibson first saw this city 
he married Miss Corinne Masson. He has one son, Thomas, aged 24 
years, and one daughter. Miss Mildred H., aged 19. 

^ Captain Gibson is a thirty-second 
degree Mason, a Shriner and an Elk. He is a member of the Rainier, 
Arctic and Press Clubs of Seattle; the Vancouver Club, of Vancouver, 
B. C. ; the Union Club, of Victoria, and the Union Club, of Tacoma. 
He is a Democrat by tradition and a Republican by conviction. He 
has never held public office. 




Hiram C. Gill 




READY TO 5rf OB. STAi^O) 

FOR That CARTOON "y 



^NCE when Hiram C. Gill was campaigning at 
Green Lake, in the crowd that surged about 
him at Mountain View Station, he encoun- 
tered a little girl, who had been frightened by 
the throng, and was sobbing bitterly. As he placed his hand on her head 
and speaking gently asked, "What is the matter, little girl?" there was an 
end of the sobbing and a smile came over the child's face. The incident 
throws light on the powerful hold over the masses held by a citizen who 
admittedly is Seattle's unique and most rugged character. 

^ Whether as councilman from the Third Ward 
or as Mayor, Mr. Gill has retained his hold on the affections of his sup- 
porters; and although made the object and the victim of a recall movement 
because he kept his campaign pledges, his standing in the community re- 
mains unimpeached. 

^ There is a suggestion of the popular conception of Lincoln in the home- 
ly characteristics of Mr. Gill; at any rate, he is close to being the idol of 
the "plain people." Even at that, he declares, with the honors and re- 
bukes which have been administered to him in office, and release from 
it, that he has had quite enough of public life; and proposes from this time 
forward no longer to deny himself the comforts and happiness of the family 
circle, to which he is devoted. 




Sherwood Gillespy 



SHERWOOD GILLESPY is known for several things, among 
others the size of his handwriting. When he signs his name the 
signature dwarfs all other similar efforts and makes the most ambitious 
efforts of Foster & Kleiser and the rest of the sign painters, look 
puny. ^ The president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, 
of which Mr. Gillespy is Seattle manager, was so impressed with this fact 
that he once bought the manager a pen proportionate to his signature. 
There was scarcely room for the manager and the pen in the same office, 
but this jest had little effect on Mr. Gillespy, who kept on hustlmg big 
busmess and writing a signature that would do credit to John Hancock. 
^ Mr. Gillespy has been twenty-five years with the Mutual. In all, that 
gives him thirty years' experience as an insurance man, since he spent five 
years with the Northwestern Life Insurance Co. of Milwaukee. ^ Our 
hero was born at Saugerties, N. Y., November 4, 1853, the son of Peter 
Gillespy and Caroline Nering Gillespy. He had his schooling in his na- 
tive town, and when he was ready to "accept a position," or, in other 
words, get a job and go to work, he went into a dry goods store with John 
G. Myers of Albany, N. Y. After five years of this he took up insurance. 

^ Mr. Gillespy came to Seat- 
tle in I 896. He was one of the organizers of the Independent Telephone 
Co., and in addition to insuring folks, has been a busy and useful citizen. 



Thomas J. Gorman 




4flp4 OBODY has ever denied that there is money in the salmon busi- 
IIM ness, and probably the last man to take that stand would be 
BB 9 Thomas J. Gorman. He is noted as the most extensive individ- 
ual packer in the business, inasmuch as he has handled canned 
salmon to the stupendous value of fifteen hundred million dollars. That is 
quite a neat sum, when one stops to thmk about it. 

^ Aside from the salmon business, Mr. Gorman is a 
member of the Knights of Columbus. He is vice supreme master of the 
fourth degree of that order. He is of the Republican faith politically, and 
has held office to the extent of having been postmaster and justice of the 
peace at Granger and Fontenelle, Wyo., between 1885 and 1894. 

^ He was born at Douglas, Ontario, 
December 8, 1 859, with paternal ancestors dating to the O'Gormans of 
County Clare, Ireland, and a line of French-Scotch descent on his mother's 
side. 

^With eight children to their credit, ranging in age from 4 to 20 years. 
Mr. and Mrs. Gorman have established their right to the Roosevelt medal 
as exponents of the anti-race-suicide idea. 



Judge Roger S. Greene 




.^g%' XTENDING a life of T ' usefulness beyond the Biblical 
ll^ allotment. Judge Roger Sherman Greene has added many notable 
0^^ accomplishments to the history of an illustrious family. Judge 
Greene's great-grandfather, Sherman Greene, signed not only the 
Declaration of Independence, but the Articles of Confederation, and the 
Constitution of the United States, as well. Judge Greene's grandfather, 
Thomas Greene, was a Revolutionary soldier, helpmg to carry to victory 
the first American flag. ^ With a New England born father and mother. 
Judge Greene began life December 14, 1840, at Roxbury Highlands, near 
Boston. At the age of I 8 he was graduated from Dartmouth College, and 
with the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion he enlisted. He began as 
a second lieutenant, and then was advanced to the first lieutenancy of Com- 
pany I, Third Missouri Volunteers; next as Captain of the 51st U. S. 
colored infantry regiment. <I He later was appointed judge advocate of 
the district of Vicksburg, and then judge advocate of the western division 
of Louisiana, serving there in 1864 and 1865. August 17 of the next 
year he and Miss Grace Wooster, of Connecticut, married, fj The young 
attorney-soldier came to Washington Territory in 1870 as a justice of the 
territorial supreme court, and served as an associate justice for the succeed- 
ing eight years. From 1 879 to I 887 he was chief justice of the same court. 
He has practiced law in Seattle since the admission of Washington as a 
state, in later years being Standing Master in Chancery in the United States 
District Court. C[ Judge Greene has been a leading figure in the Lake 
Washington Canal movement, and has taken a prominent part in larger 
public affairs. 



Robert P. Greer 







aFTER a residence of two years in Seattle, Mr. Robert P. Greer 
finds himself firmly established at the head of an important industry. 
He is the manager of the Pacific Ammonia & Chemical Company, 
engaged exclusively in the manufacture of anhydrous ammonia and 
aqua ammonia, the one of which is used in the making of ice, refrigerating 
and cold storage houses, and the other in the preparation of blasting powder, 
analytical work, and the products employed for household purposes. ^ The 
works of the company are located on the shore of Lake Union, at the cor- 
ner of Blewett and Northlake Avenue. The plant in its present shape is 
the first unit of the business, and with the completion of the Lake Wash- 
ington canal the business will be enlarged so as to include the manufacture 
of heavy chemicals, such as sulphuric acid, carbonic acid gas, and other 
products. Q Mr. Greer is an American, having been born in St. Louis 
in 1867, but nevertheless he has ranged about the world and has established 
a plant similar to the Seattle enterprise in Sydney, Australia, and also an- 
other at St. Louis. The Seattle concern is the largest and most important, 
and Mr. Greer will remain here to develop it. ^ Mr. Greer is a mem- 
ber of the Seattle Golf and Country Club, the Manufacturers' Association 
and the Chamber of Commerce. 



Austin E. Griffiths 




USTIN ED- 
WARDS 
-GRIFFITHS. 
No matter how 
we might disagree with 
some of his ideas there is 
nobody in Seattle who 
would deny that he is 
jne of the best type of citizenship. He has quietly and unostentatiously 
done as much work for the pubhc welfare as any professional benefactor 
in business. 

^ He ran for mayor a couple of years ago and was defeated. He was a 
candidate for the city council directly after the recall of the man who de- 
feated him and was elected by a big majority. He will prove an honest, 
conscientious and able law maker. 

^ Mr. Griffiths is the son of Jane Fanny Edwards and 
Francis Griffiths, and was born at Worcester, England, December 25, 
1 863. fl Mr. Griffiths is a graduate of the University of Mich- 

igan law school, 1 888. In June, 1 888, he was married to Ella Margaret 
Montgomery. The following year he came to the territory of Washington, 
and in 1897 he came to Seattle, where he has since made his home. Mr. 
Griffiths undertook the practice of law in this city with success. Some 
years ago he interested himself in the movement to provide municipal chil- 
dren's playgrounds and he was the pioneer of the work which has resulted 
in Seattle's splendid municipal playground system. 



J. A. Hall 




4A4 OT only is J. A. Hall vice president of the First National Bank, 
11^ of Seattle, but also he is an optimist. "I beheve with the open- 
■• ^ ing of the Panama Canal, Seattle is going to show greater strides in 
development than ever has been possible before," is the way Mr. Hall epito- 
mises his prophecies of the future. A recent trip to Europe served to 
strengthen his convictions regarding the increasing commercial importance of 
the North Pacific Coast. Mr. Hall has been a banker all his business life. 

^ He founded the Big Timber National 
Bank, of Big Timber, Mont., and for a number of years was its president. 
Later he organized the National Bank of the Gallatin Valley, at Bozeman. 
Coming to Seattle in 1 906 Mr. Hall entered the First National Bank, the 
president of which was Lester Turner. 

fl Then Mr. Hall, M. A. Arnold and D. H. Moss took over the 
Turner and other interests, Mr. Arnold assuming the presidency. Mr. Hall 
frequents the Rainier and Arctic Clubs, and plays golf some as a diversion. 
fl He lakes an interest in civic affairs, and is a member of the Commercial 
Club. His Sixteenth Avenue residence is one of the attractive homes of 
Capitol Hill. 



D. V. Halverstadt 




F.LLAS VER- 
NON HAL- 
VERSTADT. 
lawyer, came to 

Seattle, Aug. 13, 1901. He is an Ohioan by birth and education and he 
did not desert his native state until after his marriage to an Ohio girl. 
Then, finding that the rest of the state of Ohio was moving West, Mr. 
Halverstadt followed the star of empire and the advice of H. Greeley and 
J. Hill, and went West, young man, went West. 

Q Mr. Halverstadt was born at 
Leetonia, Ohio, September 5, 1872. His father, George Halverstadt, 
was born at Leetonia and his mother, Amelia Switzer Halverstadt, was 
born at Leetonia. 

^ Mr. Halverstadt went to Ohio public schools. When he 
was ready for college he studied law at Wittenberg College, Springfield, 
Ohio, and was graduated June 9, I 897. Four years later he came to Seattle, 
and in the same year, and on May 28, he was married to Miss Kate 
Logan Cummings. They have two children, Dallas Cummings Halver- 
stadt, five years old, and Constance Halverstadt, a year old. 

^ Mr. Halverstadt is a Republican. He has never held public office. 




«EPRESENTING a high type of the young business man, F. W. 
Handschy, vice-president and manager of the Claussen Brewing 
Association, spares time from exacting affairs to take a keen in- 
terest in matters of civic importance. Q Some of his most efficient 
services were rendered when he was selected as one of a committee of five 
from among the disinterested advocates of good municipal government, to 
report upon the four score applicants for the nine seats in Seattle's new coun- 
cil. ^ The report of the Business Men's Committee went far indeed 
toward advancing in the race the nominees who were particularly suited to 
direct affairs of the municipal corporation. ^ Mr. Handschy understands 
the brewing business thoroughly, and has constantly labored to promote 
its best interests. Before coming to Seattle some ten years ago he was an 
official of a large brewing institution in La Crosse, Wis., and before enter- 
ing the Claussen Association here he was assistant general manager of the 
Seattle Brewing & Malting Company's plant. ^ The Claussen establish- 
ment, which has an output of some 30,000 barrels a year, is situated at 
Interbay. Mr. Handschy has a handsome home on Queen Anne Hill. He 
is a great lover of children. 




■ Judge C. H. Hanford 



C EARNED in the law, with a life-time of rich experience, courag- 
eous, fearless and independent. Judge Cornelius Holgate Hanford, 
of the United States District Court, is one of the strongest judicial 
figures on the Pacific Coast. Rugged, uncompromising, vigorous 
in speech and quick of action. Judge Hanford has helped to write history 
in the Northwest. For years he was the sole representative of the federal 
ermine in Washington, and crises of the gravest concern arose for his ad- 
judication. Never has his course been timid or wavering; he is not one 
who believes in court delays. Nor has he ever shirked a responsibility once 
it fell upon his shoulders. 

^ Off the bench Judge Hanford takes a part in affairs 
of both city and state. Since the earliest days of its existence he has been 
a member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and today is a trustee in 
that strong and useful organization. Also he is an overseer of Whitman 
College. 

^ The Hanford home is on Tenth Avenue North, overlooking Lake Union, 
Salmon Bay and Puget Sound — one of the most sightly locations in Seattle. 

^ Judge Hanford is a native of Van 
Buren County, Iowa, the date of his birth being April 21, 1849. Both 
his father, Edward Hanford, and his mother, whose maiden name was 
Abbie J. Holgate, were born in Ohio. Judge Hanford in 1875 married 
Miss Clara M. Baldwin, from which union there are three daughters and 
one son living. 




Ole Hanson 



CLAIMING to know more Scandinavians than any other man on 
Puget Sound, Ole Hanson has made a strong bid for prominence 
on two counts — he has sold real estate by the acre, in tracts 
where acres are exceedingly valuable, and he has shone in the 
Legislature as one of King County's most loquacious and aggressive mem- 
bers. 

€][ Hanson is proud to admit that he began life as a bootblack; and with 
that start, he has found money-making a simple process. All there is to 
it, he declares, is to acquire a goodly piece of real estate, and then tell 
all about it in a page newspaper ad., and the publicity does the rest. 
In this way he coins money for himself — and for his friends. 

fl Politically, Hanson, 
who is a Republican, came close to trying for Congress as an Insurgent 
in a year when insurgency was popular; and if he had done so, his 
Scandinavian friends might have made his run for office an extremely 
interesting event. 

^ When Hanson talks, he gets back to his start in life, and de- 
clares that the hard knocks and bumps received as a boy have given him 
a most valuable insight into human nature; all of which is extremely helpful 
to him now. 



John Harisberger 




10HN HARISBERGER is an electrical engineer. The son of Swiss 
parents, John Harisberger and Elizabeth Egiman, he has made 
the taming of that mysterious energy which produces lightning and 
cluster lights with equal facility, his specialty. He has tamed it so 
it will eat from the hand, and trained it to provide him with a livelihood. 

•J Mr. Harisberger began to look after 
our local electricity in 1899. In 1907 Mr. Harisberger and Miss Eliza- 
beth Drylie were married. Mr. Harisberger is a Republican in politics, 
but has not held nor sought public office. 

^ He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical En- 
gineers, a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and a member of the Nile 
Temple. 




John P. Hartman 



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O H N P. 
HARTMAN 
is one of the 



numerous gen- 
tlemen from Indiana. 
He describes him- 
self as a lawyer and 
farmer. Having no proof of what success he may have had as a farmer, 
we hasten to say that he is one of the cleverest corporation lawyers now 
practising. 

^ Mr. Hartman is descended, on both sides, from staunch American fami- 
lies. The ancestors of his father, John P. Hartman, came from Germany 
to the Carolinas, 200 years ago, and fought with General Marion during 
the Revolution. The ancestors of his mother, Mary Ann Sines, settled 
in Pennsylvania from England and Holland, and served in the Revolution. 
Mr. Hartman's father fought for his country during the Civil \v ar. 

^ Mr. Hartman was born in Indiana, July 
3, 1857, starting life vsnth the celebration of Independence Day. His 
father was a native of Indiana and his mother was born in Ohio. 

^ Mr. Hartman came to Seattle in 1 89 1 . He has practised 
law and indulged his fancy for agriculture in this city since. He has held 
no official positions, but was for four years regent of the University of 
Washington. 

^ In September, I 883, Caroline E. Dryden became the wife of Mr. Hart- 
man. They have three sons, Dwight D., 22; Harold H., 20, and Robert 
N.. 13. 




J. T. Heffernan 



IF Seattle has an energetic, hustling business man, who gets the busi- 
ness, that man is J. T. Heffernan, head of the great Heffernan En- 
gine Works and Dry Dock Company. Mr. Heffernan is little short 
of a genius. Startmg from a small beginning he has developed one 
of the biggest plants on Seattle's waterfront, and it is growing bigger every 
day. 

^ When the steamship companies want a boat repaired after an accident, 
Mr. Heffernan himself makes an inspection of the craft, and sits down 
with a pad of paper for about five minutes. Then he tells the owners just 
what the job will cost, and how long it will take. If Mr. Heffernan 
didn't go himself, it might take half a dozen technical experts, but he 
doesn't need any assistants, and he delivers the work to the minute when he 
promises. 

^ Mr. Heffernan is a deep student of world commerce and has pointed 
the way for Seattle to make wonderful strides with the opening of the 
Panama Canal. His leading idea is that Seattle must make itself the 
cheapest place on the Pacific Coast for handling maritime freight. 



Louis Hemrich 




f F the name Hem- 
rich sounds es- 
pecially good on 
a hot day, it is 

because the members of that family have established themselves as the 
brewers of a beer that is sought not only in Washington, but on the other 
side of the greatest of oceans. One of the youngest business men in the 
city to hold a position at the head of a million-dollar concern, is Louis 
Hemrich. 

^ Since the untimely passing of his brother Andrew, he has been the 
manager of the Seattle Brewing & Maltmg Company, which sends out 
its product by the trainload and the shipload. Its plant in Georgetown 
marks the site of one of the largest industries in the city. 

<I Its hundreds of employes, most of whom are 
thrifty Germans, own their homes and as regularly as pay day comes put 
their earnings into the banks. 

^ Mr. Hemrich is a large property owner, and as such takes 
an abiding interest in all that concerns the advancement and material up- 
building of his home city and state. He was born in Alma, Wis., May 
20, 1872. and was married to Miss Eliza Hanna in Seattle May 20, 1907. 




Martin J. Henehan 



"WBT VERY now and then we make a great holler for more factories in 

f£ , Seattle. It's a grand idea but what's the matter with twining a few 

^^" wreaths around the brows of the men who have already established 

big manufacturing enterprises. 
^ For instance, there is Martin J. Henehan. He is the president and treas- 
urer of the Seattle Frog Switch Co., holds the same offices with the Seattle 
Marine Forge Co., and is vice president of the Mercantile Bank. 

^ Mr. Henehan is a native of Ireland. He was born 
May 8, 1857, the son of Michael Henehan and Sarah McNully, both 
natives of the Emerald Isle. His grandparents came to New Orleans in 
1 836, and both were killed by the cholera epidemic which swept the south, 
being buried at Dubuque, la. 

^ Several of the family are prominent in the church. Mr. 
Henehan is a cousin of Cardinal Gibbons. Mr. Henehan attended Notre 
Dame University. He came to Seattle in 1 900. In 1881 he was married 
to Mary Alice Gormly of Galveston, on November 3. They have five 
children, Bess M., Martin S., Vincent P., Alice M., and Kelvin G. 
^ A republican in politics, Mr. Henehan has never held office. 




p^^. C. Henry 



HAT Horace C. 
Henry has arrived 
at the years of dis- 
cretion appears in 
the fact that he was old enough to go to the gladiatorial con- 
test at Reno. How he happened to be there was due to 
chance presumably, rather than to design, for he was a 
member of a party of Seattle millionaires who had been traveling by auto- 
mobile to look into their business interests in California. But having 
reached the scene of battle, Mr. Henry was game. He was far from well, 
but he sucked lemons all night and did not forsake his companions when 
they witnessed the encounter that decided a great many things, including 
a world's championship. ^ In every respect, H. C. Henry is a big man. 
He has built railroads, notably the western part of the Great Northern; 
he has figured actively in the business life of Seattle; he is president of the 
Northern Life Insurance Company, Pacific Coast Creosoting Company and 
the Metropolitan Bank. ^ The Henry Building, one of the handsomest 
structures in Seattle, was named for him. Mr. Henry is not merely a cap- 
italist, he is a philanthropist, of the broad-gauge, human type, keenly sym- 
pathetic and alive to the responsibilities of every man to help bear the 
burdens of his fellows. ^ He is president of the King County Anti-Tu- 
berculosis League; he has donated the site for a sanitarium; and he gives 
freely of his time to the cause having as its object the control and ultimate 
stamping-out of the scourge of the Great White Plague. 



John C. Higgins 




mIIV R. higgins is a youthful looking man, but he's not quite as 
I H 1 young as he looks. When it comes to knowing how and deliv- 

ering the goods, he is a huge success. 

^ Mr. Higgins is a lawyer. He is a regent of the State Uni- 
versity and also serves as special prosecutor for the Seattle Bar Association. 
He is a member of the Municipal Charter Commission, which is trying to 
work out a much needed reform to the charter of Seattle. 

q When George W. Dilling 
recently ran for mayor at a recall election, Mr. Higgins was particularly in 
his element, serving as Mr. Dilling's campaign manager. He had plenty of 
work to do, and he did it well, and Mr. Dilling landed the job by a big fat 
majority. 

^ Mr. Higgins is the son of John J. and Lottie E. Higgins. His 
father was born in New York City, and his mother at Manchester, Michi- 
gan. John C. Higgins was born at Kent City, Mich., September 12, 1878. 
^ Mr. Higgins was graduated from the University of 
Oregon in 1897. He came to Seattle in 1899, and was graduated from the 
University of Washington law school in 1902. He has practised as an 
attorney since that time. Mr. Higgins is unmarried. He has held no pub- 
lic office. 




Captain F. A. Hill 



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HEN the final 
word is spok- 
en on civil 
and mining 
engineering. Captain F. 
A. Hill, of Renton, will 
be accounted present, 
w with various illuminating 

^1 <^^i/ ,^ remarks upon the sub- 
-^ ject. It must not be un- 
derstood from the foregoing observation that Captain Hill is given to 
loquaciousness, for on the contrary he is one of the quietest and most un- 
assuming of men. Q He was born at Muscatine, Iowa, in 1 852, and was 
educated at Iowa College; and after graduation he followed his profes- 
sion in Iowa, Illinois, Texas, Kansas and Washington. He came to 
Seattle in 1 889, and at the time of the Seattle fire, on June 6 of that year, 
was civil and mining engineer for the Oregon Improvement Company, the 
predecessor or the Pacific Coast Company. ^ In 1 900 he became su- 
perintendent of the Renton mine, owned by the Seattle Electric Company. 
He is now consulting engineer for that company, and also is manager of 
the Wilkinson Coal & Coke Company, in which capacity his experience 
as a coal miner and operator comes into good play. ^ Captain Hill is 
a Mason, is Republican in politics, is married, and the father of five 
children. His father, S. G. Hill, was born in Rhode Island, and his 
mother in Maine. His family tree carries him back to the early history of 
the New World, his ancestors having been Puritans, and having settled 
in New England prior to the Revolution. His people took a prominent 
part in that historic contest, and his father fought in the Civil War. 




Robert T. Hodge 



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'H E fighting 
quality in 
R o b e r t T. 
Hodge came 
out when he locked 
horns with Prosecut- 
ing Attorney George 
F. Vanderveer and 
the Commissioners on the appointment of jail physician, the question of 
feeding Federal prisoners and other matters affecting the King County jail. 
It lasted for rather more than a year, and all the while was a lively affair, 
with Hodge in fighting trim every minute of the time. 

^ There were those who believed that Hodge 
had killed himself politically by this controversy, for it led to ^ prediction 
that none of the parties to it, under the direct primary, would ever be 
permitted to hold office again. Hodge promptly showed the fallacy of such 
argument by standing for re-election, and triumphantly succeeding himself. 

fl He is a coal miner 
who has become sheriff, and there are some who believe he would make 
a creditable run for governor. Hodge himself is not saying much on this 
point, but it cannot be denied that he is the center of some lively gossip as 
a political possibility. 



W. D. Hofius 




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D. HOFIUS is one of the largest factors in the independent 
steel industry of the Pacific Coast. As president of the Hofius 
Steel & Equipment Company he has established a big business 
throughout the Northwest — but that is only one of many in- 
terests. His holdings in real estate and improved property in Seattle, Port- 
land and elsewhere represent more than an independent fortune. One build- 
ing under his ownership in Portland is regarded by realty authorities as 
among the finest improved property investments in the West. 

^ The steel business is an open book to Mr. Hofius, as he has figured 
in it almost all his life. Several years ago he was the owner of the 
Trinidad Rolling Mills, at Trinidad, Col. This big property he sold to 
the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, and then went to Los Angeles as the 
representative of that concern. He came to Seattle not long after the 
panicky days of the early '90's, and bought the property of the old Great 
Western Steel Company, at Kirkland, in which the celebrated L. S. J. 
Hunt had been a prime mover. Succeeding this Mr. Hofius has constantly 
enlarged his interests. 

^ Unassuming to a marked degree, Mr. Hofius has friends who 
swear by him to the last ditch. His residence is one of the show places 
of the First Hill. 



G. V. Holt 




HE solidity and conservaUve- 
ness of British and Canadian 
banking institutions are main- 
tained by such men as G. V. 
Holt, for the last ten years manager 
of the Canadian Bank of Commerce. Mr. Holt is a native of London, in 
the vicinity of which his family still resides. All his life, since he attained 
his majority, he has spent in the banking business, and for upwards of a 
score of years he has sal in a manager's chair. 

^ Before coming to Seattle he was manager of 
the Bank of British Columbia, which is really a part of the institution 
known in Seattle as the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The Seattle branch 
has handsome quarters in the Crown building at the corner of Second Ave- 
nue and James Street. 

^ Mr. Holt is a member of all the leading clubs — the Rainier, Golf 
and Country, etc., and has a beautiful residence at 1 1 32 Harvard Avenue 
North, in a neighborhood of handsome homes, among them those of H. 
C. Henry. C. J. Smith. Charles Peabody and W. W. Chapin. 
^ Mr. Holt gets lots of recreation and pleasure out of his automobile. 




George M. Horton 



^^^R. GEORGE M. HORTON ranks high in the medical pro- 
■ ■ fession of Seattle and the Northwest. Excellently equipped in 

^^^^^ education and individual research, and wth tastes and per- 
sonal quahfications specially fitting him for a practitioner, he 
has steadily gained in public esteem. Four years Dr. Horton served as 
coroner of King County, but aside from that he never sought or desired 
political preferment. His home is one of the handsome residences of the 
First Hill. 

t]| Dr. Horton has spent almost all his professional life in Seattle. His 
father, Julius Horton, was a native of New York, and his mother of Mich- 
igan. He was born in Illinois, March 17, 1865. He completed his edu- 
cation at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in the city of New York, 
in 1890, and the following year married Miss Ethel G. Benson. To them 
have come a trio of children. 

^ Dr. Horton is a great lover of horseflesh, and is known in all 
the leading clubs. When the handsome Cobb building was completed as 
a home for the medical and dental professions. Dr. Horton took a most 
attractive suite of offices. 




E. W. Houghton 



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ALF the buildings of modern construction stand- 
ing on Seattle's chief thoroughfare — Second 
Avenue — between Yesler Way and Virginia 
Street, are the architectural work of one man — 
E. W. Houghton. Seattle is credited with the most rapid 
growth since its villagehood of any city in the country. 
To have built half the principal buildings on its main avenue is indeed a 
distinction of which any man may be proud. C| Mr. Houghton has been 
a resident of Seattle for the last twenty-two years. Some of the earlier 
buildings which he planned include the Bailey, and the old Hoge Building, 
razed recently to make room for the new 1 8-story Hoge structure that is 
the tallest in Seattle. Later structures of Mr. Houghton's design include 
the Moore Theatre building, the Amherst Hotel, the Washington Annex, 
the Estabrook, the Curtis, the new London Store building, and the Ma- 
jestic — or Empress — theatre building. ^ Mr. Houghton's great success 
as an architect of theatre structures gave him the building of the Heilig 
theatre, in Portland ; the Salt Lake theatre in Salt Lake, and two theatres 
in Butte. No less than 380 structures of all kinds are credited to Mr. 
Houghton — a truly remarkable record, and meaning an average of almost 
one a month since his architectural career began. ^ Mr. Houghton is a 
member of the American Institute of Architects, of the Seattle Chapter of 
the Institute, of the Seattle Hunt Club, and of many other organizations 
and clubs. 




Heber B. Hoyt 



CWELVE years' practice at the Seattle bar have given Heber B. 
Hoyt, of the law^ firm of Gill, Hoyt & Frye, a wide acquaintance 
among lawyers and with the people of the city. 
^ Mr. Hoyt is a native of Wisconsin, having been born at Madison 
in 1877. At the age of twenty he was graduated from the academic course 
of the University of Wisconsin and two years later completed the course 
in the law school of the same university. 

^ H. S. Frye, of the present legal firm, was graduated 
from the law school at the same lime, and hearing the best reports of the 
young city of Seattle, he and Mr. Hoyt decided they would form a part- 
nership here. This office was opened in 1 899, and the two have been 
associated ever since. Some tiine years ago, Hiram C. Gill became a part- 
ner in the firm, and remained so during the time he was mayor of Seattle. 

^ Mr. Hoyt has taken a par- 
ticular interest in the Modern Woodmen of America. For five years he 
was clerk of Elliott Bay Camp, and for four years he was president of the 
National Clerks' Association of the Modern Woodmen's order. The Hoyt 
home is in Denny-Blaine Park, overlooking Lake Washington. 



E. C. Hughes 



WAU I SHUD 
JEOGE THE 
HQRG WU2. 
WUTH ^5 




^MJT was to be expected that Hon. Elwood Clarke Hughes would 
II be retained in the celebrated Cunningham cases before the Secretary 
■B of the Interior of the United States. There has scarcely been any 
litigation of monumental proportions arising in the Pacific Northwest 
in which he has not been actively associated. ^ As the senior partner 
of the law firm of Hughes, McMicken, Dovell & Ramsey, he is recognized 
as a leader of the bar of the state; and his talents and abilities have been 
further recognized by the tender of an appointment to the Federal bench. 
One of the suits of nation-wide importance in which he figured was the 
legal battle over the Northern Pacific railroad, at the time Andrew F. 
Burleigh was appointed receiver by Judge C. H. Hanford. ^ Mr. 
Hughes was born near Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Penn., August 
25, 1855, and he was reared on a farm in Illinois. He was graduated 
from Carthage College in 1878; and in 1881 was admitted to the bar in 
Iowa. He has been a practitioner before the United States Supreme Court 
since I 889. In 1 890 he located in Seattle. ^ In preparing his cases, Mr. 
Hughes is thorough and exhaustive; he seems almost intuitively to grasp 
the strong points of law and fact, while in his briefs and arguments the 
authorities are cited so extensively as to leave no doubt as to the correctness 
of his views or of his conclusions. ^ In 1 880 Mr. Hughes was married 
to Emma de Hart, a classmate. They have two children, Howard de 
Hart Hughes, and Helen M. Hughes. 




Howard De Hart Hughes 



♦IT. OWARD DE HART HUGHES, assistant corporation counsel. 
11^ is the son of his father, and he is decidedly more. He is a 

young man who has set out to stand or fall by his own efforts. 

Instead of reflecting the glory of an illustrious sire, he proposes 
to shine by his own light. Paralleling the career of his father, who is one 
of the leaders of the bar of the state, Howard Hughes is making rapid progress 
in his profession, and already in his own right is accounted a lawyer, in 
the broad-gauge sense of that term. ^ He was born at Spencer, Iowa, 
October 19, 1882, and came to Seattle in 1891. He was graduated 
from Harvard in 1 904, and also took a degree from the University of 
Washington in 1907. He has been practising five years, three years of 
that time having been spent in the office of the corporation counsel. ^ In 
the capacity of assistant, Mr. Hughes has handled business of great im- 
portance to the city, and is accounted one of the ablest and most resourceful 
of the office force. He is Republican in politics. Mr. Hughes is the son 
of E. C. and Emma Hughes. His father is a Philadelphian, and his 
mother a native of Carthage, III. 




p. D. Hughes 



IF YOUR MONOR. 
PLE.ftse,I OB- 
JECT TO THAT 



evMei^-^^/ 



SOAT races between the University of Washing- 
ton and the other big Universities and Colleges 
of the West could not possibly be a success with- 
out P. D. Hughes, who manages aquatic events 
by preference and who practises law when not otherwise 
engaged. ^ If there's anything that Capt. Hughes enjoys 
much more than a boat race he never has publicly pointed it out. Ail the 
big races must have him as a prominent official — referee, judge, or some- 
thing of that kind. ^ Don't forget to call "P. D." Captain, for that's a 
title he won years ago, before he came West. He's really entitled to it, 
for he was an officer in the Queen's Own Guards, or some such dis- 
tinguished military organization, back in eastern Canada. About that 
time he was mighty strong on the military arm, and had taken lots of 
prizes in amateur athletics in college. Ever since boyhood he has been 
one who loved sport and the open air. ^ When he came to Seattle twenty 
years or more ago, Capt. Hughes served time as a superior court clerk, 
but soon got into the practice of law. He has a pretty home on Renton 
Hill, a summer cottage at Eagle Harbor, and during office hours you'll 
find him in the Burke Building. 



Robert A. Hulbert 




«OBERT A. HUL- 
BERT bears the dis- 
tinction of being one of 
the first white children 
born in the village of Seattle. That 
was March 1 0, 1 864. Now he 
is one of the most prominent attor- 
neys in the city of Seattle, being a 
member of the firm of Roberts. 
Battle, Hulbert and Tennant, in 
the Alaska Building. 
♦I A house on what is now the 
site of the Stevens hotel, on First 
Avenue, was Mr. Hulbert's 
birthplace. Mr. and Mrs. Ansel Hulbert, parents of Mr. Hulbert, spent 
only about a year in Seattle in those early days, coming West by ox-team 
over the Lewis and Clark trail. They then went to California to make 
their home. 

^ A few years later they returned northward, and resided for many years 
at Everett. The son attended the University of Washington in the early 
Eighties, and then studied law under private tuition and in various law 
offices. He practised law for a number of years in Everett, and then in 
Seattle formed a partnership with Judge Alfred Battle, which later became 
the present firm. 

^ Mr. Hulbert is a great enthusiast over hunting and fishing, and belongs 
to a number of shooting and hunting clubs. He and some friends have 
a duck preserve in Skagit County. 

♦I He is a member of the Rainier Club, of the Golf 
and Country Club, of the Chamber of Commerce both in Seattle and 
Everett, of the Cascade Club in Everett, and of the American, Wash- 
ington, Seattle and Everett Bar Associations. He and his wife and 
two daughters reside in a handsome Capitol Hill home, at 1 429 East 
Aloha Street. 




F. T. Hunter 



^MV F Seattle had more 
II men of Frank T. 
H Hunter's energy, 
ability and re- 
sources, the city would 
be the gainer by many 
hundred fold. He has 
been intimately identified 
with the development of 
Seattle ever since I 890, 
the year in which he was 
graduated from the National Law School of Washington, D. C. fl The 
following year Miss Cornelia Hilton, of the national capital, became Mrs. 
Hunter. The range of Mr. Hunter's activities, both socially and in a 
business way, is apparent from the list of his connections. He is a member 
of the prominent real estate, insurance and loan firm of Bowden, Gazzam 
& Hunter (until consolidation in 1910 he was head of the firm of Hunter, 
Mellen & Co.) ; he is a former president of the Trustee Company of Seattle, 
is a director in the Seattle Lighting Company, vice-president of the North- 
ern Bank & Trust Company, vice-president of the Independent Telephone 
Company, secretary, manager and director of the Seattle Factory Sites 
Company, director of the Empire Life Insurance Company of Seattle, 
member of the Phi Gamma Delta Club, of New York City; of the Seattle 
Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club, of the Seattle Golf Club, 
the Seattle Country Club, life member of the Arctic Club and of the Seat- 
tle Athletic Club, member of the Elliott Bay Yacht Club, a Mystic 
Shriner, and a 32d degree Scottish Rite Mason. ^ His father, dying in 
I 896, had an enviable war record in the Eighty-Second Indiana regiment. 
Mr. Hunter is a native of Bloomington, Indiana. He was born January 
21, 1867. His father was of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and his mother of 
French-English ancestry. 



Samuel Hyde 




♦JfNOWLEDGE of mining has 
117 brought its reward to Samuel Hyde, 
** * for he IS now reaping the harvest of 
his investment years ago in King 
County coal lands. Mr. Hyde saw into the future and realized how impor- 
tant would be fuel in the development of a great commercial center like 
Seattle. He is now regarded as one of the city's wealthy men. 

^ Mr. Hyde recently completed at 3726 
East Madison Street one of the most beautiful homes in the West. Of 
brick construction, and surrounded by attractive grounds, it is distinctive 
and most creditable to the owner. 

^ Ever since 1 888 Mr. Hyde has been a resident of Seattle. 
For a number of years he had large business interests, but retired in order 
to devote his time to mining and his own desires. 

fl He is a native of England, only a little past the 
50-year mark, and has always been loyal to Seattle and certain of its future. 
Mrs. Hyde was Miss Langford, an English girl. A son and two daughters 
grace the Hyde home. 



J. C. Jeffery 




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ITH years of equipment as a surveyor, engineer, and in the muni- 
cipal service, J. C. Jeffery was well fitted to undertake some of the 
great regrade work that has made Seattle famous the world 
around. Now he is a member of the successful contracting firm 
of Holt & Jeffery, with offices in the Hinckley Block. (^ Mr. Jeffery came 
West from Michigan in 1 888. Back there he had been engaged in mining 
engineering, and railroad surveying for the Wisconsin Central and other 
railways. In Seattle his first employment was with the firm of Scurry & 
Owens. ^ Later Mr. Jeffery was engaged upon Government work in 
Pacific County, and when he returned to Seattle, in 1 896, he was em- 
ployed by the city engineering department, on Cedar River water system 
work. Cily Engineer Thomson then made him his assistant, a position 
he occupied until 1907, when he resigned to become manager of the 
Rainier Development Company, which took the contract for removing 
5,500,000 cubic yards of earth comprising Denny Hill, and sublet the 
contract to Grant, Smith & Company and Stillwell. ^ He also was 
interested in the Westlake, Lakeview, Fairview, and other regrades. Mr. 
Jeffery is a member of the Arctic Club, and of the Chamber of Commerce, 
and live* at 95 1 Twenty-Second Avenue North. 



A. Johnson 




CHARLES ALEXANDER JOHNSON, who has lived in Seattle 
since 1895, is a wholesale dealer in lumber and shingles. Mr. John- 
son was born in Canada, of Canadian parents, but has made the 
United States his home for some years. 
fl Charles Alexander Johnson is the son of William E. and Mrs. J. John- 
son of Glengarry. He received a common school education in Canada 
and came to the United States. 

^ Mr. Johnson first made Seattle his home in 1895. In 
1899 he married Miss E. H. Whyddon, on February 12. They have 
three children, Alice, I years old, June, 6 years old, and Whyddon, one 
year old. 

^ Mr. Johnson is a member of Nile Temple, the Seattle Athletic Club and 
the Metropolitan Club. 




Capt. E. W, Johnson 



CAPT. E. W. JOHN- 
SON has taken so 
much gold out of Alas- 
ka that it's strange any 
is left for the miners of today. 
It would take the Captain 
many a weary hour to count 
the dollars that the word Alas- 
ka spells for him. Most of the 
Captain's wealth came out of 
some of those rich Nome 
claims, though he also operates 
in other parts of the North. At 
different times attempts have 
been made to despoil him of some of his nuggets, but he gets the decision 
every count. Mrs. Johnson is also a mine owner — one of the wealthiest 
and most successful in Alaska. 

^ Genial and companionable, Capt. Johnson has lots of 
friends, not only among the sourdoughs, but throughout the United States. 

^ For several years he has made 
his home in Seattle — or rather, at Medma, on the eastern shore of Lake 
Wcishington. The magnificence of the Johnson place there is a marvel 
to all visitors, for Capt. Johnson has provided himself with every comfort 
and all sorts of amusement features, even to a private shooting gallery. 

^ He raises fancy birds of many kinds, and gets great 
sport fishing in the lake, on which he has comfortable launches and speedy 
motor boats. His automobile is constantly waiting for him on the Seattle 
side of the lake. 




Richard Saxe Jones 



4 4^^ HE enter- 
M \ tainment 
^^gf commit- 
tee consisted of Rich- 
ard Saxe Jones." The 
above line is kept 
standing in all local 
newspaper offices. No 
matter what the com- 
mittee of entertainment has to entertain or who else is selected to do the 
entertaining, Richard Saxe Jones is pretty sure to be among those present. 
Q He's the boss entertainer, is R. S. J. His reserve stock of anecdotes 
is as great as the capital of the Puget Sound National Bank; his smile is 
conducive to enjoyment ; his manner is as winning as the West. The en- 
tertainee is just bound to enjoy himself. ^ Needless to say Mr. Jones is 
an Elk. He is also in the front rank of the legal profession in this city and 
state. As an attorney of general practice, he has won the highest distinc- 
tion. He is the son of a noted jurist and by following the practice of law 
has carried out a natural inclination. ^ R. A. Jones, his father, was, 
from I 886 to 1 888, chief justice of the state of Washington. Judge Jones 
was born in La Fayette, Ind., and Richard Saxe Jones' mother, Sarah 
J. Jones, was born in McVeytown, Penn. Mr. Jones was born February 
22, 1861, at Chatfield, Minn. Q He completed his education at the 
University of Minnesota and practised law in Minnesota and Dakota. He 
served a term as prosecuting attorney of the latter state. Mr. Jones came 
to Seattle in 1892. In 1896 he was married to Margaret T. Barr. He is 
a Democrat by political preference and prominent in the party. 



W. Kahle 




SMM f" tfie world were one gigantic hot cake, it would be the ambition of 
fM J- W. Kahle to cover it with Mapleine. Since this is not exactly 
HI the case, he is hard at work inundating the United States and its island 
possessions with this table delicacy. Born with the ambition to en- 
lighten the most remote corners of the earth with the blessings of hot cakes 
and syrup, Mr. Kahle is achieving his ambition at a rapid rate. 

^ He is president of the Crescent Manufactur- 
ing Co., a firm which he took up when it was on its last legs; and in the last 
seven months that concern has shipped from Seattle ten car loads, or 1 20,000 
gallons of Mapleine to every state in the union, Cuba, Porto Rico, Canada 
and the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands. 

^ The story of the Crescent goods 
is interesting. J. W. Kahle is the son of J. D. and Grace S. Kahle, and 
was born in Pennsylvania. In 1 896, in the Crescent factory, at that par- 
ticular time employing a force of three people, he saw a big business oppor- 
tunity. The force has grown from three to 45 men, 55 girls, a sales force 
of twenty and 1 75 women demons' rators, now touring all United States 
possessions and Canada. The company is about to build a factory of its 
own in Seattle. 

^ In course of time, his friends predict, Mr. Kahle 
will have the Grand Llama of Thibet eating Mapleine for breakfast, drink- 
ing Crescent Cream coffee and ordering his cooks to use Crescent baking 
powder. 



A. Keenan 




SA. KEENAN is a prom- 
inent practising attor- 
♦ ney. In addition to be- 
ing a practising attorney, he has the somewhat unusual quahiica- 
tion, as an attorney, of being interested in local banks. To judge from the 
talk of most practising attorneys their principal interest in banks is purely an 
impersonal, casual one. In that they closely resemble cartoonists and news- 
paper men. 

^ Mr. Keenan, however, has practised well enough to have a property 
interest in banks, which speaks well for his ability. 

^ To get down to facts Mr. Keenan is 
Irish, not by birth, for he is a citizen of the United States, but by parent- 
age, both his father, James Keenan, and his mother, Mary Walsh, having 
come from the "ould sod." Mr. Keenan was born at Ripon, Wis., June 
15, 1864. He received his education in the state of his birth and was grad- 
uated from the Iowa normal and Northern Illinois normal colleges. 

^ Miss Eva L. Myers became Mrs. S. A. Keenan at 
Des Moines. la.. May 30, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Keenan have three chil- 
dren, Edmund M., aged 21, Hortense E., aged 19, and Vernice E., 
aged 17. 

^ Being Irish, Mr. Keenan makes up his own mind about politics and 
political issues, and enrolls himself as an independent. He has never held 
public office. He came to Seattle in August, 1907. 




Alfred E. Knof f 



aDVANCElVIENT from clerk to manager of the Seattle office of 
the American Steel & Wire Company, in the brief interval of four 
years, is the compact business history of Alfred Emerson Knoff. 
In the fall of 1 883 he came to this city with his parents from 
Cheyenne, Wyo., where he was born May 2, 1882. He went through 
the public school, but started at the age of 7 to earn his own living, car- 
rying papers after school. At 1 4 he discontinued the first year high school 
to go to business college in this city. 

Q At the end of six months he was graduated, and three days 
later became office boy for the Seattle Hardware Company. He worked 
there three and a half years, and then became clerk for the American Steel 
& Wire Company, with which establishment he has been connected ever 
since. 

^ In 1 904 he was made manager of the office, and still holds that position. 
He belongs to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, Rainier Club, Arctic 
Club, Seattle Athletic Club, and Town and Country Club. His favorite 
recreation is fishing and walking. 



Harry Krutz 



^^1^^ 




as founder and now president of the Washington Loan & Trust 
Company Harry Krutz is identified with one of the oldest finan- 
cial institutions in Washington. Mr. Krutz organized the loan and 
trust company in I 885 — four years before Washington became a 
state. ^ In those early days he was secretary and treasurer, and the home 
of the concern was Walla Walla, which was then a thriving city, biddmg 
fair to become a great inland metropolis. 

^ After twelve years Mr. Krutz removed to 
Seattle, and the company's offices were then transferred. The Washing- 
ton Loan & Trust Company now occupies quarters on the Marion Street 
side of the Burke building. Mr. Krutz is a native of Indiana, 1 848 being 
the year of his birth. He was educated at Moore's Hill College, in Dear- 
born County, the same state. 

^ His early business experience was in merchandise, milling and 
shipping, and he later read law, but never practiced. He came West 
about the time of the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway to the 
Coast. In Seattle he has gained prominence and high regard. His resi- 
dence is in the North Boylston avenue district. 



Henry Kyer 




M TRULY MR KVER. 
I ftM PLEftseO TO BE 
ft BUYER WHERE THE 

Clerks ssem so 

HAPPY AfND so GAY. 
YOU MAY SEND He A 
POUND OF CHEdRiES 
AND A OUARTEK'S 
V^ORTH OP BERRIES. 
AND DUPLICATE THE 
OliOER. EVERY DAY 




4|» ENRY KYER represents 

11^ one of Seattle's most con- 

11^ spicuous business successes. 
As president and general 
manager of the great establishment of Augustine & Kyer, he gives to Seat- 
tle one of the finest food purveying establishments on the Pacific Coast. 

^ In fact, so complete and so handsome is 
the Augustine & Kyer store in the Colman Building, that it is a continuous 
exhibition of the finest of things to eat. Mr. Kyer's connection with the 
concern dates back only since 1904, before which time it was Louch, Au- 
gustine & Co. 

C[ He not only established its present high standard, but he maintains it 
every day, for he is one of the ever-present variety of business men, and 
believes in personal supervision of every department. Not only is the firm 
an immense retailer, but it is as well a large manufacturer, having big candy, 
tea, coffee, spice and other packing departments. Mr. Kyer's greatest pride 
is his poultry farm, near Kent, which is developing into one of the biggest 
in the state, supplying the local establishment. 

^ A great lover of the outdoors Mr. Kyer is an 
automobilist and a horseman. His saddle horse, valued at $1,000, is one 
of the Northwest's thoroughbreds. Mr. Kyer was once traveling passenger 
and freight agent for the Maple Leaf railway in this territory. 




George B. Lamping 



C" 



►OMPANY 'ten- 
shun! Present 
har-r-r-rms ! 
^Enter Adjutant 
General George B. Lam- 
ping on a coal black 
steed. He is a military 
man, adjutant general of 
the state, to be exact, and son of a military man, Samuel W. Lamping, a 
veteran of the Civil War. His mother, Mary E. Lamping, was born in 
Kentucky, and his father in Indiana, the same state where the general saw 
the light on March 20, 1875. 

^ During the piping times of peace George B. Lamping is a 
fire insurance agent. He was, for four years, auditor of King County. 
He is a Republican. 

^ Mr. Lamping came to Seattle in I 889, and finished his education at 
the University of Washington. In 1 896 he was married to Miss Edith 
Denny. They have two children, Rolland Denny Lamping, three years 
old, and Mary Ann Lamping, one year. 



Warren Danforth Lane 



DO VGu HtAN Tc 
! TELL THE JURY 
THAT CL'CUMBERS 
DOWT GROW 
ON Tl^^ES 





lARREN DANFORTH 
LANE, of the firm of 
Douglas, Lane & Doug- 
las, in the White building, 
has made himself a well-known attorney in Seattle; is a member of the 
State Bar Association, and of the American Bar Association ; also 
has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United 
States. ^ Between the years 1 899 and 1 903 Mr. Lane was State's 
Attorney of Roberts County, South Dakota. On August 1 of the year 
immediately following he and his family came to Seattle to make their 
home. ^ Mr. Lane is a graduate of the Northwestern University and 
of the University of Minnesota, being privileged to add the letters M. S. 
and LL. B. to his name. ^ He was born in Cresco. Iowa, May 10, 
1867. His father, Abraham Lane, was a native of Wayne County, 
Pennsylvania, and his mother, Sarah Darling Lane, came from Sullivan 
County, N. Y. ^ Mr. Lane is a Republican, and has taken some 
part in politics. His marriage to Miss Maude Cross took place at Wilmot, 
South Dakota, and they have three children, Frances Fern, aged 8; 
Dorothy Darling, aged 6, and W. Danforth Lane, just a year old. Mr. 
Lane is a member of two Greek Letter fraternities, and of the Metro- 
politan Club. 



Clancy M. Lewis 




CLANCY MONTANA LEWIS, editor of the Pacific Builder and 
Engineer and secretary of the Municipal League, has been on the 
go since 1874, when at the age of ten months, he broke away 
from Minneapolis and faced the Missouri River and the Montana 
Indians in a desperate effort to reach the town that gives 
him his Irish handle, fl He laid the foundation of his profession ; 
financed, among the Yellow Pine mills of Arkansas, the superstructure which 
was completed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and traveled the 
world in quest of the adornments. ^ While an executive in a college at 
Canton, China, he embraced the opportunity of studying oriental institu- 
tions, customs and languages. ^ His Hfe in the Far East has expression 
in Beaux Arts Village, where he lives in a Chinese villa (Hong Lok), the 
color treatment of which — silver gray and maroon — is the honor of his 
alma mater. Q Mr. Lewis is a member of the American Institute of 
Mining Engineers, Hoo Hoo, Seattle Architectural, Commercial and Press 
Clubs, National Geographic Society, National Municipal League, chairman 
of the Beaux Arts Village Park Board, and a committeeman of the Mer- 
cantile Bank. 



Charles H. Lilly 




aAV N Seattle's flour trade, which is destined to become a great part 

II of the city's commercial development, there have been many pio- 

II neers, and one of the foremost is Charles H. Lilly. ^ His name 

figures conspicuously in the history of the city, in that he was 

for years the President and Treasurer of Lilly, Bogardus & Co., now the 

Charles H. Lilly Company, doing the largest wholesale business in the 

Pacific Northwest in the purchase and sale of all kinds of cereals, flour, 

feed, seeds, poultry supplies and fertilizers. ^ The business, which has 

now reached mammoth proportions, is largely the outcome of the executive 

ability of Mr. Lilly. <I He was graduated from the University of Illinois 

in 1 884, came to Seattle in 1 889, and during that year entered into 

partnership with Mr. Bogardus, and with a paid-up capital of $3,000 

launched the enterprise that today has been developed into one of the 

largest and most substantial firms on the coast. 



Dr. Adolph O. Loe 




BR. ADOLPH O. LOE as a physician and surgeon has led a busy 
life. He organized and built one hospital, has served as house phy- 
sician of several more, and since practising in this city, has built up 
a large practice. 
^ Dr. Loe is the son of O. E. Loe and Ida Mathilda Loe. His 
grandparents were early settlers of Wisconsin, and Dr. Loe was born in that 
state, at Lacrosse, in 1871. In 1890 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn. 

^ Dr. Loe was graduated from the Minn- 
eapolis Academy in 1 892. He afterwards took the academic course at the 
University of Minnesota and finished the medical course at that institution in 
1897. Dr. Loe served for some time as house physician in the Ramsey 
County Hospital at St. Paul, and St. Lukes Hospital at Grand Forks, North 
Dakota. In partnership with Dr. Holt he organized and built the Bethseda 
Hospital at Crookston, Minn. 

^ Dr. Loe was married to Miss Olive Tweaten of Crooks- 
ton, Minn. They have two children, Ralph, aged eight, and Ruth, aged 
two years. Dr. Loe removed to Seattle in 1901. He is a Republican in 
politics and has never sought public office. 



S. L. Loeb 




m 



ITH more than a score of 

years of experience in the 

brewing business, S. L. 

Loeb has become one of the 
leading figures among the brewing interests of the Northwest. He is 
President of the Independent Brewing Company, and with his father, 
Benjamin Moyses, controls the $400,000 plant of the Independent Com- 
pany, in South Seattle. This company was formed in 1902, Mr. Loeb 
coming to Seattle from Tacoma, where he was heavily interested in the 
Milwaukee plant. So rapidly has the establishment developed that it is 
second in Seattle only to one institution of the kind, and it has an annual 
payroll running from $65,000 to $70,000. The product helps to make 
happy the people of not only the State of Washington, but also those 
of British Columbia, California and Oregon. 

^ Mr. Loeb is a native of Indiana, coming 
to the Coast almost a quarter of a century ago. He has become a heavy 
property owner in Seattle, and is a member of the Concordia, Arctic and 
Seattle Athletic Clubs. His residence is at I 202 Madison Street. 



Albert B. Lord 




aLBERT B. LORD is one of the brightest, keenest and ablest of 
Seattle's younger business men. Alert and active, he has been among 
the leading figures in the progress and prosperity squadron of Se- 
attle's foremost commercial organizations. Peculiarly appropriate 
is the motto of his office "We Know Seattle Well." 

^ Of wealthy and refined parentage, Mr. Lord found the silver spoon 
his earliest companion. Reared in Hungary in an atmosphere of culture, 
he attended the universities of Budapest and Munich, perfecting five lan- 
guages, taking degrees in architecture, and making a special study of the 
planning of cities. Only thirty-five years of age, he has been ten years 
in Seattle. 

C| Mr. Lord is owner of considerable real estate, is directing ge- 
nius of several successful land companies, is a deep student of civic 
questions, a good speaker on public affairs. Mr. Lord's offices are on the 
tenth floor of the Northern Bank & Trust Company building. 

^ A Presbyterian in religion and large contributor to missionary 
and benevolent work. He is a member of the Seattle Yacht Club, 
Knights of Pythias and the Masonic order. Still a bachelor and resides 
at the Seattle Athletic Club. 




J. D. Lowman 



3D. LOWMAN, president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce 
and of the Lowman & Hanford Stationery & Printing Company, 
▼ is one of the larger figures in Seattle's business and commercial life. 
Mr. Lowman has been identified with the growth of the city for 
the last thirty years, and has had a most important part in the building of 
Seattle. 

^ The handsome 1 2-story Lowman Building, 
at the corner of First Avenue and Cherry Street, stands as evidence of his 
efforts and as a monument to his belief m Seattle. 

^ In the last ten years Mr. and Mrs. Lowman have become 
great travelers, and few parts of the globe are unfamiliar to them. Once 
they have circled the earth, and twice they have visited Japan and the 
Orient. Their last long journey was to the British West Indies and the 
Isthmus of Panama. 

^ Mr. LowTTian started in the stationery business originally with W. H. 
Pumphrey, whose interest he bought out in 1882. Two years later, with 
Clarence Hanford as his associate, the present firm was organized, and has 
become the largest institution of its kind in the Northwest. 

^ Mr. Lowman is vice president of the Union Savings & Trust Co. 



Peter J. Lynch 




^MVN the passing of Peter J. Lynch, Seattle has lost a worker of wide 
II public spirit. He came to this city as the managing head of the 
^' Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Company, and at the time of his death 
was district commercial manager of that concern. He had spent 
twenty years of his life in California. ^ From manager of the Oakland 
exchange he went to the Philippines, where he organized the insular telephone 
system out of Manila. On finishing that work, he came to Seattle. The 
extensive improvements under way by the Sunset Company were planned 
by him, and he was directing their execution. ^ They contemplate a city 
of 750,000 people, as Mr. Lynch was a believer in Seattle's future. 
^ Mr. Lynch never lost an opportunity to point the way toward develop- 
ment. As an advocate of Oriental trade, for which he believed this city 
ought to make a stronger bid, Mr. Lynch was well known. fl Besides 
membership in the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Lynch was an active mem- 
ber of the Rotary Club, the Commercial Club and the Press Club. He 
took a leading part in the building of the new Masonic Cathedral. ^ When 
the crisis came in his career he was compelled to undergo an operation 
from the effects of which he never recovered. Death came on the night of 
April 20. A widow and a daughter survive. The Seattle Chamber of 
Commerce and the Press Club adopted resolutions in memory of Mr. 
Lynch's useful life in this city. 




Kenneth Mackintosh 



k^ 


^, 




LTHOUGHC:^'^'^ 



aL 
KennethT^J 
► Macldnto s h 
is s t i 1 1 a 
young man, he is 
one of the star per- 
formers at the gatherings of the Pioneers, and at those annual celebrations 
distinguished under the name of Founders' Day. Since he was born in 
Seattle October 25, 1875, he couldn't possibly have been on the scene when 
Henry L. Yesler located his sawmill and thereby gave the first industry 
to the frontier post that later was destined to expand into the greatest 
city of the Pacific Northwest. Although that boon was denied him, there 
is not the least doubt that he will have a great deal to say about the founding 
of the Greater City, fl If the Dennys and Yesler built the pioneer Seattle, 
then Mackintosh, the son of pioneers, has been selected to rebuild it, for fate 
has decreed that he become president of the important municipal plans 
commission, consisting of twenty-one of the leading business men and pro- 
fessional men of the city. This is the organization that will determine the 
civic center, and settle other problems vital to the future growth of the city. 
^ It is entirely possible that, like the emperor who found Rome of brick 
and left it of marble, Mr. Mackintosh and the municipal plans commission 
may yet have recorded of their efforts that they found Seattle incomplete in 
many respects, but raised it to the standard of perfection among the lead- 
ing marts of the world. ^ Mr. Mackintosh is a Republican. He was 
prosecuting attorney of King County from i 905 until 1 909. He was 
graduated by Stanford University in 1 895 and by Columbia Law School in 
1900. He was married to Francisca Argues, November 18, 1909. 



A 



Marmaduke 




F J. C. Marmaduke had 
really accomplished nothing 
else in the world, he would 
still be entitled to rather 
more than ordinary notice from 
the fact that with all his kindly 
and enlivening qualities, he remains apparently a confirmed bachelor. ^ It 
would appear that he has come to that distinction through inherent right, 
for he is a member of the famous Marmaduke family of Missouri; he is 
a nephew of the late John S. Marmaduke, a brigadier general in the Con- 
federate Army, and afterward governor of Missouri. Q Governor Marma- 
duke, it may be observed m passing, never married; and his nephew has 
been some forty odd years on this mundane sphere without having taken 
notice of the Scriptural warning, "It is not good for man to be alone." 
fl Having come from St. Louis, it is no accident that John C. Marmaduke 
is in Seattle as the representative of the Century Building Company, the 
organization that erected the Alaska Building and later the New Washington 
Hotel. ^ Mr. Marmaduke is correctly rated as a capitalist, and by that 
same token he is known as a club man and a yachtsman. In a business 
way, he became treasurer of the New Washington Hotel Company, and 
in November, 1910, assumed the responsible position of manager of that 
hostelry. 



Frank J. Martin 




4&K F ever Frank J. Martin as a boy delighted ia the clang of the fire 
II bell and the rattle and dash of the apparatus as the smoking engines 
" raced madly at fully ten miles an hour, scattering dust and cinders, 
frightening old ladies into fits, and generally delighting all normal 
small boys, he must, of necessity, have recovered from that thrill by this time. 
For Mr. Martin is a fire insurance manager. No properly constituted fire 
insurance manager can get any pleasure out of a big blaze, it comes too close 
to home. ^ Mr. Martin is secretary and manager of the Northwestern 
Mutual Fire Association and president and manager of the Mill Owners' 
Sprinkler Co., which proves absolutely that he could not regard a fire with 
the small boy enthusiasm which other people do, so long as the fire is not 
near their homes. ^ Mr. Martin is the son of Indiana people, and was him- 
self born in that state. His father, Frank J. Martin, was born at Greens- 
burg, his mother, Mrs. L. S. Martin at Wilmington, and Frank J. Martm 
the second was born at Wilmington. ^ In I 888 Mr. Martin was married 
to Miss Isabell Johnson. In 1901 he came to Seattle and began to make 
the most of opportunities in the fire insurance business. In addition to the 
management of the two big companies mentioned above, Mr. Martin is vice 
president of the Northern Bank & Trust Co., and a director of the Seattle 
Trust & Title Co. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Martin have five children. Mr. Mar- 
tin is a member of the Woodmen of the World and the I. O. O. F. 




William B. Martin 



CAND and gravel are not very poetic commodities, but in a city 
building at the rate of Seattle they are mighty important elements 
in the general scheme of things. Knowing this to be true, William 
B. Martin, vice-president and general manager of the Pioneer 
Sand & Gravel Company, has made himself a factor in producing the 
necessary supply, that concern having a large plant near Steilacoom. 

^ Mr. Martin's training 
is as a civil engineer. For lYfo years he was employed putting in the 
head work for the Cedar River pipe line, and then spent two years more 
as consulting engineer at Marrowstone Point, where the government put 
in the Fort Flagler fortifications. For three years he was inspector of 
buildings and bridges at Portland, Ore. 

^ Mr. Martin's mother, a member of a 
prominent Wurtenburg family, came to America from Germany sixty-six 
years ago. She married William B. Martin, Sr., a New Yorker, and the 
William B. Martin Seattle knows was born in Illinois. 

^ Mr. Martin came to Seattle 
in 1 896, and married eight years later. The Martin home is on Queen 
Anne Hill. 




William Martin 



A^ EARS ago there was a Seattle law firm known as Martin, Joslyn and 
M J Keene. The senior member of the firm, William Martin, remained 
jL in Seattle and built up a large practice, while Falcon Joslin, the sec- 
ond member, was bitten by the Alaska fever, and since the days of 
the Klondike, has been one of the most vigorous and successful figures in 
the North. 

^ He is now president of the Tanana Valley Railway Company. After 
this early legal partnership was dissolved, Mr. Martin was associated with 
Arthur E. Griffin, later a judge of the King County Superior Court. To- 
day Mr. Martin's handsome law offices on the second floor of the Collins 
building, are the center of a large legal business, and a room there is always 
waiting for Mr. Joslyn when he is in Seattle. 

fl Mr. Martin was for years the attorney for the 
estate left by John Collins, one of Seattle's wealthiest pioneers. Aside from 
this feature of his business, Mr. Martin has made a specialty of maritime 
and admiralty law practice. Incidentally he has become interested in 
Alaska himself, and has promising mining properties in the Knick mining 
district. Cook's Inlet. 

^ Mr. Martin is a member of the Rainier and Arctic Clubs, and of the 
Chamber of Commerce, and lives in a handsome home on Queen Anne hill. 



R. MARK 
ALLISON 
MAT- 
THEWS 
is a tall, very 
slender sky 
pilot, who is the 
particular joy 
of all cartoon- 
ists and an es- 
pecial boon to 
D o k Hager, 
who has drawn 
him in every 
c o n c e i vable 
pose. 

q Dr. Ma t- 
thews' enemies 
say he ought to 
go into vaude- 
ville, by which 
they reter to the 
fact that he can 
draw the big- 
gest crowds of 
any man of the 
cloth in Seattle, 
or, for that 
matter, in any 
other city. So 
far as we are 
concerned, it 
looks as if Doc 
Matthews was 

doing a da — excuse me. Doctor — a great deal more good drawing the crowds 
to church than he would packing them into a vaudeville house. 

^ Anyhow, Dr. Matthews has built 
up one of the strongest churches in the United States, and one of the sound- 
est. In fact, he has done so well that the directors of the First Presbyterian 
get a chill every few days for fear he may accept one of the advantageous 
offers he often receives from such insignificant places as Philadelphia. 

fl Dr. Matthews is a Southerner. This is written for the beneht 
of those who have never seen or heard him, for the fact is patent on sight. 
He is the son of M. L. and Melinda R. Matthews, and was born at Cal- 
houn, Gordon County, Georgia, September 24, 1867. His father was a 
native of Halifax, N. C, and his mother of Dandridge, Tenn. He is of 
Scotch-Irish revolutionary stock. 

^ Dr. Matthews finished college in Georgia in 
1887. He came to Seattle in 1902. August 24, 1904, he married Grace 
Owen Jones. They have two children, Grace Gladys, aged five, and 
Mark Allison Matthews, Jr., aged 1 8 months. 

^ Dr. Matthews describes his official 
position as "pastor," and adds, "that covers the earth." 




Dr. M. A. Matthews 



OM GWENOOUVN 
ITS 5-0 0' P>J«fe 




George Matzen 



^EORGE MATZEN. in the 
Matzen Manufacturing Com- 
pany, has built up one of the 
largest garment making estab- 
lishments in the West. Starting from 
the smallest of beginnings, the energy 
and resource of Mr. Matzen overcame obstacles that to many men would 
have been insurmountable mountains. He gained recognition for his makes 
all up and down the Coast, even before they came to be known in Seattle. 
^ Now his factory, located at Third Avenue and Washing- 
ton Street, employs close to 1 00 men and women, and is so heavily loaded 
with business that Mr. Matzen has difficulty meeting the demands that are 
placed upon him. This success has come in a remarkably short space of 
time, as he has been a resident of Seattle less than a decade. 

q June 4, 1 902, he and Miss 
Helen Irene Pinney were married in the East, and two weeks later they 
were in Seattle to make their home. They have one son, Quentin, who is 
just two years old. Mr. Matzen takes a keen interest in civic affairs, and 
is first vice president of the Seattle Commercial Club. He has just com- 
pleted a magnificent new home. Mr. Matzen was born in Plymouth, Mich- 
igan. His father, Matthias Matzen, and mother, Maria Matzen, were both 
bom in Denmark. He is a Republican. 






J. W. Maxwell 




^■flC OST people think it must be a great thing to be a banker. Bank- 

^11^ ers, according to popular opinion, have nothing to do but receive 

1^ II V other people's money, come down to vs^ork at 10 o'clock in the 

morning, and quit at 3 in the afternoon. The rest of the time 

they are supposed to smoke expensive cigars, play golf and drive their motor 

cars. 

^ J. W. Maxwell was cashier of the Seattle National Bank, and later vice 
president. When the Title Trust Company was reorganized and named 
the National City Bank, Mr. Maxwell became president. He is president 
of the Seattle Commercial Club, chairman of its Chinese Relief Committee, 
which sent $60,000 in cash and food to the starving thousands in China, 
and generally a pretty useful citizen. 

C|I Mr. Maxwell was born in Iowa, Septem- 
ber 8, 1 864. He came to Washington more than a quarter of a century 
ago and for a long time made his home in South Bend. He was a repre- 
sentative of Pacific County at the state legislature in 1 899. He was twice 
mayor of South Bend and for several years served as national bank examiner. 

^ Mr. Maxwell mar- 
ried Miss Belle Oakley. He lives at I 1 08 Harvard Avenue North. 



J. G. McFee 




aLTHOUGH the public seldom heard his name in connection with 
the building of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway 
westward, much of the success attending the construction of that 
magnificent line is attributable to J. G. McFee. 
^ For years Mr. McFee has carried forward the great projects of H. C. 
Henry, Seattle's most widely known railway contractor, who has also made 
his name notable in lines of philanthropy and public spirit. On Mr. McFee 
Mr. Henry placed his greatest reliance, for he knew that whatever was 
undertaken Mr. McFee would carry forward not only to a successful but 
to a speedy conclusion. The Milwaukee's line through to Seattle was 
completed before the time set in the contract. 

^ Mr. McFee is a native of Russelltown, province of Que- 
bec, Canada. He fitted himself with a thorough business education, and his 
activities in business now are along many lines. 

^ He is treasurer of the real estate firm of 
G. W. Upper & Co. Mr. McFee is well known in Seattle clubdom. 



Oliver C. McGilvra 




▲■■ N a state that has grown so rapidly as Washington the native sons 

II of pioneer days are not numerous, and therefore Oliver Chase Mc- 

Bl Gilvra, bom in Seattle in I 867, has with particular propriety taken 

an active part in the organization of the Native Sons in Seattle. Mr. 

McGilvra comes of one of the most distinguished pioneer families, his 

father. Judge John J. McGilvra, being a prominent jurist of the early years. 

^ Judge McGilvra, in the 
days when Seattle was a village, took up a homestead on Lake Wash- 
ington covering the district that is now known as Madison Park. Mrs. 
Thomas Burke, his daughter, was long the possessor of the unique summer 
home Illihee, adjoining the Firloch Club grounds. 

^ It is fitting, too, that Oliver C. McGilvra. 
who has seen Washington's magnificent resources attacked so ruthlessly 
by the great primal industries, should be president of the Washington Con- 
servation Association, and a leading figure in the movement to prevent the 
dissipation of the state's natural wealth. 

^ Mr. McGilvra is a lawyer by profession. Miss Maud Walthew 
became his wife in I 902. The family is of Scotch descent. 




Lee McKenzie 



aAV F there is pre-eminently an insurance authority on the Pacific Coast 

II that man is Lee McKenzie, Washington's insurance surveyor, with 

II offices in the Colman Building. He knows more about insurance 

— policies, risks, losses, adjustments and all that — than the average 

man could learn in a hundred years, working Sundays. 

<J In fact, there isn't anything that 
gets by him on the subject of insurance. However, ask him if this isn't 
true, and he might be so modest as to deny it. 

^ Mr. McKenzie is a Native Son of Cali- 
fornia, with San Jose as his birthplace, and he gives the date as October 
13, 1865 — though you might imagine it was ten years later. 

^ Mr. McKenzie is a mem- 
ber of the Arctic Club, and has a wide circle of friends all through the 
Northwest. Mrs. McKenzie was Miss B. M. Wetmore before her 
marriage. 
^ Mr. McKenzie has the initials B. A. tacked to his name. 




John McLean 



f'HN McLEAN, manager and legal representative of the Standard 
Oil Company, is Scotch on both sides of the family. He is a de- 
scendant of the Clan McLean. His great grandfather fought at Water- 
loo. Murdoch McLean was his father and Catherine McLean his 
mother. He was born at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, October 27, 1852. 

q In the fall of 1875 Mr. McLean 
came to California. Nine years later he started to work for the Standard 
Oil Company at Stockton, California, and has been with that great corpo- 
ration ever since. 

^ In 1 89 1 , Mr. McLean was sent to Tacoma to take charge of the 
Standard Oil business there. In October, 1897, he was sent to Seattle 
as manager and legal representative of the company. He has now served 
the company for twenty-seven years, and is qualifying for the life pension 
roll of the Standard Oil Company. 

<I Mr. McLean was married in September, 
1886, to Cornelia Lyon, at Stockton. They have two children, twins, J. 
M. McLean, and Lottie B. McLean, now Mrs. A. A. Cobb. 

q Mr. McLean is 
a Republican, but has never sought public office. Aside from his connection 
with Standard Oil, he is a director in the Mercantile Bank of Seattle and 
president of the Pioneer Land Co. of Seattle. 



Maurice McMicken 




fROM whatever viewpoint he may be considered, Maurice McMicken 
cannot escape classification as a substantial man. He is one of those 
successful lawyers who rarely, if ever, get into court — which is an- 
other way of saying that to him has been accorded the faculty of 
bestowing golden advice for the benefit of those who seek his counsel. 

^ In his office he is immured behind an 
array of tomes that make one of the most complete law libraries in Seattle; 
and hedging him about, as if contributing to the insignia of his calling, is a 
multitude of corporate seals, attesting the scope and variety of his talents as 
attorney and counsellor. 

^ He is noted for prodigious industry, but nevertheless his scheme of 
solving the problem of life has enabled him to play at stated intervals. This 
tendency explains why he is an enthusiastic sailor, with membership in the 
Seattle Yacht Club, and a scarcely less enthusiastic golfer, making him a 
familiar figure on the links of the Seattle Golf and Country Club. He is 
also a member of the Rainier, University, Arctic and College Clubs. 

fl Mr. McMicken was born October 
I 2, 1 860, in Dodge County, Minnesota. He is a graduate of the Univer- 
sity of California, class of 1881, and is married. 




R. D. Merrill 



CHE wonderful timber resources of the Northwest, where the trees 
are making their last stand against the woodsmen, have attracted 
many large lumber interests and many prominent timbermen from 
the Eastern states, and especially from the Great Lake district. 
One of the most notable of these is R. D. Merrill, of the Merrill-Ring- 
Bliss Lumber Company, with offices in the White building. Following 
heavy investments in western Washington timber Mr. Merrill came to the 
coast about ten years ago to make his home. His firm was then the Merrill 
& Ring Company, Mr. Ring remaining to look after the extensive eastern 
business of the company. ^ Mr. Merrill's early years were spent chiefly 
in Duluth, Minn., but he gained much of his timber experience at Saginaw, 
Mich. Only at a recent date did the Bliss interests become merged with 
those oi' Merrill & Ring, forming the present large concern. ^ Mr. 
Merrill's purchases of western timber began twenty years, or more, ago, 
and the company now has immense holdings in Snohomish, Clallam and 
other counties, and carries on large logging operations. ^ One of the 
most handsome homes in the North Broadway district is owned by Mr. 
Merrill, at 918 Harvard Avenue North. 




George W. Miller 



F any man 
i n Seattle 
knows how 
to sell auto- 
mobiles that man 
is George W. Mil- 
er. Count the 
Winton Sixes as 
they go by on 
Goodrich tires and 

you will appreciate the opening statement about George W. Miller, for he's 
the Winton man. Although Mr. Miller came to Seattle only half a dozen 
years ago, and was then at the beardless age of 24, he is now manager 
of the Seattle factory branch of the Winton, with undoubtedly the finest 
automobile establishment on the Pacific Coast. 

^ For the last four years the Seattle branch of the 
Winton concern has done more business than any other Wmton branch in 
the United States. Like many other automobile men of today Mr. Miller 
was first in the bicycle business — first in Pueblo, Colo., although he was 
bom in Milwaukee. 

^ He disposed of this business to advantage just before the steel trust 
closed its $45,000,000 Pueblo plant. Then he opened the first automo- 
bile agency in Salt Lake City, but believed Seattle was the coming city, 
and soon after coming here in 1905, had obtained the Seattle agency for 
the Winton, along wnth that of several other high-grade cars. The others 
he dropped, after a while, for the exclusive Winton agency — and Seattle 
knows the rest of the story. 

^ Mr. Miller is well equipped to handle an automobile business, 
for he knows the machine like a book. Not only has he been in the large 
American factories, but he spent several months in Paris, at the noted De 
Dion plant, gleaning the best of the French knowledge concerning automo- 
biles. 




James R. Miller 



1AMES R. MILLER is the active business head of one of the 
largest manufacturing concerns on the Pacific Coast. As secre- 
tary and manager of the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company 
he oversees the manufacture of more than 50,000,000 paving 
brick annually, fifty miles of vitrified clay electric conduits, directs 800 
men, with a payroll of more than three-quarters of a million dollars a 
year, and ships half a hundred carloads of manufactured products for 
every working day of the week. €J Mr. Miller is in constant touch with 
ail the details of this great enterprise, and though his life has almost paid 
the forfeit, he makes personal mvestigation of every branch of the work 
at any time. ^ An explosion in the company's mine at Taylor, early 
in 1 9 H , was fatal to some of the workmen, and inflicted on Mr. Miller, 
who happened to be in the mine at the time, injuries that came near 
costing his life. ^ Mr. Miller is a native of the Pacific Coast, having 
been born in Healdsburg, Cal., the year of the Civil War's outbreak. 
His father, Samuel E. Miller, came west from Illinois. 



John A. Miller 



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^g% OR seventeen years John A. Miller has been connected with the 
Jl Great Northern Railwaj' in Seattle, rising from baggageman to 

tU general agent of the freight department, a responsible and impor- 

tant post. The story of Mr. Miller's pluck and resourcefulness 
shows that the West always offers an opening to the man who is deter- 
mined to succeed. ^ When the great panic of the early '90's swept 
over the country and devastated so many industries, Mr. Miller was manager 
of a large cotton mill at Lynn, Mass., and had been prominent in numerous 
ways in the Bay State. The crash closed the cotton mill, and stripped 
Mr. Miller of the fruits of years of labor and investment. But he started 
out anew, and arriving in Seattle took the first offering in the way of work, 
which happened to be with the Great Northern in a very subordinate place. 
^ The years saw him advance step by step, and the higher officials of the 
Great Northern hold him in high regard. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Miller make 
their home at the Washington hotel. Mr. Miller should really be called 
Colonel, for he held that rank m the Massachusetts National Guard. He 
is a member of the board of trus'.ees of the Commercial Club. 




James A. Moore 



©NE of the most industrious financiers in Seattle is James A. Moore, 
President of the Western Steel Corporation and manager of the 
Moore Investment Company. He is an expert in making two 
dollars grow where but one grew before. ^ Mr. Moore it was 
who had the nerve to open the old Washington Hotel that sat forlorn 
upon the summit of Denny Hill, and make it pay after several years of 
disuse. Mr. Moore also built the first forerunner of a modern office build- 
ing, and, later, dazzled us with the Washington Annex, the Moore Theatre, 
a truly beautiful modern playhouse, and the glittering New Washington 
Hotel. ^Aside from these small undertakings, Mr. Moore is really a 
busy man planting a second Pittsburgh on the shores of Puget Sound. He 
saw the possibilities of utilizing native iron ore, and bought up the old 
Irondale plant and has established a steel industry which finds a ready 
market for its output. Q Mr. Moore is the son of A. K. and Isabel Moore, 
natives of Economy, Nova Scotia. He was born at the same place October 
23, 1861. His ancestors were Irish linen manufacturers and Nova Scotia 
shipbuilders. Mr. Moore made his own way in the world, gathering 
his education as he went, f^ In 1 885 he was married to Miss Eugenia 
G. Jones. They have two children, James A. Moore, Jr., eight years 
old, and Eugene G. Moore, six. Mr. Moore has made his home in 
Seattle since I 887. 



Clyde L. Morris 




SEAT 1 LE and Alaska are proud of such progressive and success- 
ful young men as Clyde L. Morris, who, at only 35 years of 
age, is president of the Arctic Club and one of the most promi- 
nent of the many Alaskans who make their homes in Seattle. 
Mr. Morris carries on a large contracting and freighting business in 
Alaska. His teams of twenty and thirty horses each transferring heavy 
machinery from Nome to the creeks and benches of the Seward Peninsula 
are among the remarkable sights of the Northland. ^ However, Mr. 
Morris is more of a Washingtonian than an Alaskan, for he was born in 
Pomeroy, in Eastern Washington, Sept. 2, 1876, his father, George 
W. Morris, crossing the plains from New York before the building of the 
railroads. The son went to Alaska in 1 900, and has operated extens- 
ively there ever since that date. ^ Today his interests include real 
estate holdings in Alaska, Washington and California. Politically he has 
Republican leanings, and has taken a notable part in the fight of Alaskans 
for freedom from the wrongs inflicted by an indifferent government at 
Washington. ^ In 1906 Mr. Morris and Miss Marion Gullixon mar- 
ried, and they have a son four years of age. Mr. Morris' offices are in 
the Arcade Annex. 



J. C. C. Morris 




^tfV F Seattle has a more enthusiastic admirer than J. C. C. Morris he 

II would be hard to find, even though the admirers are as legion. Mr. 

BB Morris came to Seattle with the beginning of 1908, as Northwest 

manager for the H. W. Johns-Manville Company, which with 55 

years of service, is one of the oldest asbestos supply houses in the United 

States. 

^ Mr. Morris' territory includes all of Washington, Oregon, British Colum- 
bia, and a good part of Idaho. A native of Cincinnati, he became identified 
with the Johns-Manville concern soon after completing his education, and 
today he and his father, A. D. Morris, are occupying important managerial 
positions with the same firm, the elder being in Chicago. Before he was 
detailed westward the present Northwest manager was in charge of what is 
known as the western division, with headquarters in Milwaukee. 

^ Mr. Morris is a hard worker, but takes some 
athletic recreation at the Seattle Athletic Club. In Masonic circles he has 
gained prominence. "Believe me, Seattle for mine," exclaims Mr. Morris. 
"I like it better here every day in the year." 



D. H. Moss 




1^1^ H. MOSS is one of the youngest bank vice-presidents in the 
^L ■ State of Washingon. For the last four years he has held that 
jk^ ^ position with the First National Bank, an institution that has 
had a part in the city's financial history for the last thirty years. 
^ Mr. Moss has been a most important factor in bringing the bank's 
deposits up close to the $4,000,000 mark. 

^ Before coming to Seattle, Mr. Moss 
was a Mt. Vernon, Wash., banker, that wealthy little city being his home 
through most of his early years. When M. A. Arnold became possessed 
of Lester Turner's interest in the First National, Mr. Moss also acquired 
large holdings in the bank, and stepped in with Mr. Arnold, who then 
became President. 

^ Mr. Moss is high in Masonic circles, and is a member of the 
Seattle Golf Club, of the Seattle Country Club, and of the Rainier Club. 




James D. Mudge 



1AMES D. MUDGE, vice president of the Moran Engineering Com- 
pany, was bom in Binghampton, New York, in 1879. Becoming 
interested in engineering problems, and determined to make their 
solution a life work, he entered and was graduated from Sibley Col- 
lege, Cornell University, taking the degree of Mechanical Engineer. 

^ Some years later, impressed with the rapid de- 
velopment of the Northwest, Mr. Mudge located in Seattle and for the past 
six years has been interested in power and hydraulic developments which 
have aided greatly in the advance of the industrial Northwest. 

^ Mr. Mudge is a member 
of the Sigma Nu Fraternity, a Knight Templar and an Elk, and is active 
in all movements tending to further the interests of the locality in which he 
has made his home. 




Charles F, Munday 



CHARLES FRANK- 
LIN MUNDAY, a 
Democrat of the old 
school, figured promi- 
nently in the early history of 
politics when Washington was 
a territory as well as later, 

when it became a state. Coming to Seattle as early as 1881, he was a 
member of the Territorial Legislature from 1 884 to I 886. Dunng Cleve- 
land's first administration he was Assistant U. S. Attorney, and, under 
Governor McGraw, he was on the building committee for the State 
Capitol. 

^ Mr. Munday is a descendant, on both sides, from old English families, 
who settled in Virginia. His mother, Elizabeth Cornett, was born in 
Missouri, and his father, Beverly Broaddus Munday, was born in Ken- 
tucky. His father crossed the plains in 1849, and again in 1852. 
He served several terms in the California Legislature. He died in 1873. 
His mother died in 1907. 

<I Mr. Munday was born in Sonoma, California, October 8, 
1858. He was graduated in 1879 from the Columbian University, Wash- 
ington, D. C, which is now George Washington University. On Janu- 
ary 22, 1908, he married Sonya, daughter of Joseph Zuboff. Mr. 
Munday is a lawyer. 




George L. Munn 



m 



|HENEVER anybody makes a list of the eligible and highly 
desirable bachelors in Seattle the first name always selected is 
that of George Ladd Munn. At first Mr. Munn was not so 
partial to this distinction, but now he quite enjoys it, and it 
looks as if he might hold his fortress at the Universiay Club for some 
time to come. 

^ Mr. Munn is a member of all the principal clubs, and is a delightful 
guest when he can be coaxed into society. At the bar his rank is the 
highest, the firm of Munn & Brackett, in the Alaska building, being one 
of the most prominent in Seattle. 

^ Mr. Munn is a native of Freeport, 111., his father, 
Loyal L. Munn, having been born in New York. Mr. Munn took his 
A. B. from Rochester, and his LL. B. from Michigan, after which 
he came West. At first Tacoma seemed to him the more promising of 
the Puget Sound cities, but he soon saw his error, and in 1 900 came to 
Seattle. 

^ For several years his law associate was George H. Walker, the firm 
name being Walker & Munn. 



U. R. Niesz ^.- i(^ 




^Ifl^R. NIESZ has a hobby that everybody can't afford to indulge. 
V H^He is ready and willing to help out deserving public institutions 
1^ ll«rwith a free site, said site being in West Seattle, where Mr. Niesz 
lives. He is the boss booster of a ward full of boosters, and if West 
Seattle does not some day outrival Chicago it will not be the fault of 
Mr. Niesz. tj Mr. Niesz is a native of Canton, Ohio, and his father and 
mother were born in the same place. He further exemplified his love 
for his birth-place by marrying a Canton girl, but since he settled in West 
Seattle he has had little to say about Canton.. ^ Mr. Niesz is the son 
of William Niesz and Delilah Roush. He was born at Canton, February 
17, 1849. He is a graduate of Mount Union College and Northwestern 
University. He was married to Miss Ada Breuner at Canton, in 1 882. 
In 1 883 he removed to Seattle, where he has since made his home. 
^ From 1887 to 1890, Mr. Niesz was a member of the City Council. 
He was a member of the Constitutional Convention and First Legislature. 
He is now President of the U. R. Niesz Co., dealing in real estate. Mr. 
Niesz recently gave a site for the West Seattle branch Public Library, 
one of the handsomest improvements in the fourteenth ward. He recently 
offered a handsome site in the same locality for the Museum of Arts and 
Sciences. <J Mr. Niesz is father of three children, Paul B., 20 years; 
Adrian Raynor, 1 4 years and Penn Earle, 1 I years. 




W. G. Norris 



a LONG with many other men who came to Seattle in the year 
that the growing young city was devastated by flames — 1889 — 
W. G. Norris has made a pronounced business success. His 
earlier business enterprise was in the sale of safes, and in 1 899 
he incorporated the Norris Safe & Lock Company, which is one of the 
best known institutions of the kind in the Northwest. 

^ Incidentally he has had some spare 
time to devote to politics, and in 1 909 was elected a member of the 
State Legislature from the Forty-first Legislative District, embracing the 
Twelfth and Fourteenth Wards in the City of Seattle, and sixty-five 
precincts in King County outside the city, extending as far eastward as 
Wellington, at the mouth of the Great Northern's Cascade tunnel. 

q While at Olympia, 
Mr. Norris secured the passage of the West Seattle Viaduct bill, in 
which his West Sea'tle constituents were particularly interested, this step 
being necessary before the city could consider the building of the $ 1 ,000,- 
000 bridge to bring the Fourteenth Ward into closer communication wnth 
the business heart of the city. 

^ Mr. Norris is a prominent figure in the Arctic, Rainier, 
Seattle Athletic and Commercial Clubs, and is also a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce. He has a handsome home at Alki Point, 
where Seattle's first settlers landed. 



Walter Oakes 




-g^ ARTICULAR LY lovable and magnetic in type, Walter Oakes 
II I ^^^ ^ ""^^ whose friends thought the world of him, and his recent 
U^ death carried sorrow to many hearts. Through long months of 
almost hopeless illness he kept up his courage and tried to believe 
that he could be restored to health, but his malady was beyond the aid 
of the most skillful physicians. Mr. Oakes was a Harvard man, coming 
of sturdy Massachusetts stock. His father, Thomas F. Oakes — once a 
receiver for the Northern Pacific Railroad — was bom in Boston, and his 
mother came from the famous fishing town of Gloucester. 

^ It chanced that Walter Oakes 
was born in St. Louis, Mo. Completing his education at Harvard in 
1887, Mr. Oakes remained in the East until 1904, when he came to 
Seattle, and became interested with Samuel Hill and others in the fuel 
business. He was president and treasurer of the Roslyn Fuel Company, 
and of other mining companies, and president of the Metropolitan Invest- 
ment Company, which for some time owned the Perry Hotel, one of 
the finest residential hostelries on the Coast. 

^ In 1892, Mr. Oakes and Miss Mary Beekman 
Taylor married, and to them came three children, Mark Beekman, Thomas 
Fletcher and Maud Van C. Oakes. 



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Herbert E. Orr 



ERBERT ED- 
WIN ORR, son 
of Matthew Guy 
and Sarah Orr. 
was born In Township 
Artemesia and County of 
Grey, Province of Ontario, 
Canada. H i s 
father and mother 
were both born in 
Canada, though of 
Scotch and Irish 
descent, respect- 
ively. His grand- 
father bore arms 
on the Brit- 
ish side in 
•. .^ the war of 



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1812. The 

head of the 

^■^ family in the 

previous generation espoused the cause of the Royalists in France, 

during the French Revolution, saving his neck from the guillotine by escaping 

from France in a fishing vessel. 

^ The subject of this sketch came to Seattle in 1901 with $10 in 
his pocket. Afterward he engaged in real estate, rentals, loans and insur- 
ance and founded the firm of H. E. Orr & Co. in 1903. It was incor- 
porated as H. E. Orr Company, Inc. in 1 906. 

^ He is the pioneer in developing the country 
north of Seattle, his first purchase in this section being 400 acres, which he 
platted, developed and sold. While some of the largest negotiations in the 
real estate history of the City have been conducted by him, and his business 
along general lines has been most prosperous, he is best known for his sub- 
division work, which has been exclusively confined to his own property. 

^ He is President of H. E. Orr Company, Inc., the Royal Land 
Company, and the West Coast Securities Co. Tlie Secretary of the Em- 
pire Investment Company and the Pacific Bond & Investment Co., and a 
director or trustee in numerous others. 

^ Mr. Orr is a member of the 
Chamber of Commerce, the Arctic Club, the Seattle Athletic Club, the 
Elks Club, and the Seattle Real Estate Men's Association. 
^ Mr. Orr was married November 1 7, 1 906, to Miss Marie D'Aoust. 



Alfred Lee Palmer 




^^%OR her wonderful development in building Seattle is indebted 
^^ to men like Alfred Lee Palmer — men who have been believers 
Jl in the city's future, and were willing to back their judgment 

with the resources they had accumulated through the years. 
^ For almost thirty years Mr. Palmer has been a resident of Seattle. In 
the village days he built the Palmer House; after the fire he erected the 
York Hotel, a six-story structure that for years was a landmark in Seattle. 
More recently he erected buildings at Fourth Avenue and Pine Street, 
and on First Avenue, south, together with residences and apartments. 

^ Mr. Palmer was born in Mina. N. Y., in 1835. After his 
graduation from the Albany Law School, he began the practice of law, 
but the Civil War called, and as a lieutenant in the Battle of Corinth 
he was shot through the right lung. This brought about his honorable 
discharge — the wound did not heal for twelve years — and later he was 
judge of the Jackson County, Iowa, court. 

tj For fourteen years he lived in Lincoln, 
Neb., and made profitable investments in the growing city. Mr. Palmer 
is high in the Masonic fraternity, having been Eminent Grand Com- 
mander of Knights Templar for the State of Washington. Among Mr. 
Palmer's children are Dr. Don H. Palmer, Frank J. Palmer, Lee C. 
Palmer, Leet R. and Ben B. Palmer. 




OT 



I HEN Alexander Pantages/^ / ^N. opened his first theatre 
in Seattle, a number ofVi^ J years ago he hyphen- 

ated his name thus, "Pan-ta-ges," so people would more easily 
divide its syllables and arrive at the proper pronunciation. 
^ There is no need of the hyphens any more, for to-day the name 
of Pantages is known in every city of the West, and Pantages theatres 
provide amusement for scores of thousands of people each week. ^ In 
other words, Mr. Pantages, from the small beginnings in Seattle, has be- 
come a theatrical magnate, of the vaudeville variety, and owns or controls 
so extended a string of theatres that their names alone would take a page 
or so of this book. ^ And Mr. Pantages has no one to thank for his re- 
markable success but himself. He is his own best friend — unless it be 
Mrs. Pantages — and his remarkable advancement is a fine testimonial to 
his inherent business genius. ^ Mr. Pantages has a beautiful home over- 
looking Lake Washington, and in conjunction with Mrs. Pantages, his char- 
ities are noteworthy. Recently he purchased the old Plymouth Congrega- 
tional Church property, at the comer of Third Avenue and University 
Street, for $350,000, and intends to erect on it a magnificent theatre and 
office building. 



2^^^hkrl08 E. Patten 




CHARLES EDWARD PATTEN, who is the moving spirit in 
the Reliance Lumber Company and the Atlas Lumber 6c Shingle 
Company, did not begin life with a dollar. More correctly speaking 
it was a $20 gold piece; and with it he secured a short-time 
option on some property that later became well worth while. It may be 
that he was accustomed to walking in those days, but there's evidence that 
he lost the habit as soon as he acquired the unearned increment from his 
first real estate deal. He now owns an automobile and is an advocate of 
good roads. ^ The only time in recent years that he descended to ple- 
beian street cars was when he tried the experiment of parting with his ma- 
chine to an associate who wanted it worse than he did. He quickly 
discovered his mistake. ^ Mr. Patten is a native of Le Seur, Minnesota, 
where he was born April 30, 1865. His father was a Nova Scotian, his 
mother a native of the Isle of Man, and his remoter ancestors were Scotch- 
English. A Minnesotan of Scotch-English descent, he is clearly entitled 
to make money in the lumber business, to the extent of being president and 
manager of two concerns, as well as a director in the National Bank of 
Commerce. ^ Mr. Patten came to Seattle in 1884. He was married 
June 25, 1903, to Alice Adelia Allmond. 




W. T. Perkins 



q Nathaniel P. Perkins 
Thomas Perkins, a pro 



,i-^^\ fc-V <^*<-«^ I L L I A M 

T. PER- 
KINS is 
one of the 
prominent pio- 
in the develop- 
ment of Alaska. In 
Dawson, in 1 898, 
and in Nome, in 
1900, he was among 
the first to direct or- 
ganized mdustry. 
his father, was the son of Rev. 
minent Free Will Baptist, of 
New Hampshire. Annette Hawkins, his mother, came of ancestors who 
served with distinction during the Revolution. 

fl William T. Perkins was born November 2, 
1858, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was graduated from Bates College in 1881, 
with a degree of A. B., and from the University of Michigan, 1884, with 
an LL. B. ^ In North Dakota, where he lived a number of years, Mr. 
Perkins served as an alderman, and a member of the school board at Bis- 
mark, ten years as superintendent of Burleigh county schools, and as president 
of the North Dakota State Educational Association. 

fl He came West in 1 898. During that and the 
follovtang year he was in Dawson, Y. T. From 1900 to 1910 he was 
prominent in Nome. In 1 904 he was sent as the Alaska delegate to the 
RepubHcan National Convention at Chicago, which nominated Theodore 
Roosevelt. In 1 884 he married Catherine Laub. 

<J Mr. Perkins is a lawyer by profession but does not practise. He is pres- 
ident of the Northern Securities Co., secretary of the Northern Exploration 
&c Development Co., and president of the Roy and Oakville state banks in 
this state. He is a 33rd degree Mason and very prominent in that order, 
having served as grand master of the grand lodge and grand commander 
of the Knights Templar of North Dakota. He is Past Grand Arctic Chief 
of the Arctic Brotherhood, member of the Sons of the Revolution, and 
prominent in the work of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 



Arthur A. Phinney 







CIKE his brother Will, Arthur A. Phinney is a native of Seattle. He 
honored this city by choosing it as a residence on June 21, 1885, 
a year later than Will Carleton Phinney, whose biography is on 
another page. Q Guy C. Phinney was an early settler of Seattle. 
He was a native of Spa Springs, Nova Scotia, and his wife Emily came 
from Lansing, Michigan. The father was a heavy property owner of this 
city and is remembered as the owner of the beautiful tract which the city 
purchased and named Woodland Park. 

^ Arthur A. Phinney received a common 
school education in Seattle and later attended Stanford University for two 
and a half years. ^ Mr. Phinney is now engaged in a real estate and 
investment business. He is secretary, treasurer and general manager of 
the Phinney Realty & Investment Co. Mr. Phinney is a Republican. 




W. C. Phinney 



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ILL CARLETON 
PHINNEY was 
born in Seattle and 
has grown up with 
the city. His father, Guy 
Carleton Phinney, owned a 
great tract of land about 
Green Lake, part of which 
has since become Woodland 
Park. He built one of the 
first street car lines in the city 
to develop the land, and, if he 
then foresaw the dense popu- 
lation which was to move north about the shores of the lake and across the 
hills, he must have had the eye of a prophet, for the country was wild and 
Seattle looked a long way off. 

^ Will Carleton Phinney was born May 23, 1884. His father was 
a native of Nova Scotia, and his mother, Nellie Phinney, was born at Lans- 
ing, Mich. Mr. Phinney attended the Seattle public schools and received 
a university education at Stanford. He is now extensively interested in real 
estate as president of the Phinney Realty Co., and is also interested in an 
importing firm. 
^ Mr. Phinney has never held public office. He is unmarried. 



Gl«e HIM ANOTHER. 

cHAMce. Jooce, 

HIS ISA OOOO 

PAce 




Ralph Pierce 



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HEN Ellis De Bruier, who made Seattle's police court famous 
by his rapid fire prosecution, resigned as city attorney and 
corporation counsel, and Scott Calhoun announced the ap- 
pointment of Ralph Pierce to the office, lots of folks who didn't 
know Ralph wondered what "that kid" could do in the difficult task of 
handling hoboes and judging human nature at cinematograph speed. 
^ Although he looks very young, as a matter of fact Ralph Pierce is 
as old as Councilman Max Wardall, our famous "boy mayor, " for he 
celebrated March 21, 1911, his thirty-second birthday. ^ Aside from 
the question of years, which some people take very seriously, Ralph Pierce 
had the training and the judgment to make a good city attorney. If you, 
dear reader, need any convincing, watch him work through a line of 
regular patrons of the police court some afternoon. ^ Ralph Pierce 
was born in Laramie, Wyo., March 21, 1879. He is the son of David 
J. and Etta M. Pierce. His father was born in Indiana and his mother 
in Vermont. Mr. Pierce attended public schools and later was grad- 
uated from the University of California and the law school of the Uni- 
versity of Washington. He came to Seattle with the family in 1 88 1 and 
February 5, 1907 he married Miss Helen R. Russell, of Spokane. They 
have two children, Elizabeth, two years old and Virginia, one month. 
Mr. Pierce is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta and the Seattle Press 
Club. 



Jas. E. Pinkham 



'TIS LIKE THE 
MUSIC OF A 

usTz. RH^PS.u 

DIE TO MN 




CHERE may be some people so perverse as to see no beauty in 
saw mills and lumber piles. Some may be so set in their ways 
as to prefer the standing timber to the shrieking saw. Not 
so James E. Pinkham. Mr. Pinkham is a wholesale lumber 
dealer. The song of the saw is sweet to his ears. To him the ungainly 
gambols of the uncouth log as it mounts millward are as graceful as 
Maud Duncan in the Grecian glide. Piled lumber represents piled 
dollars. It all depends on the point of view. 

^ Coming to Seattle in 1 905 from Iowa, his native state, Mr. 
Pinkham organized a wholesale lumber business. 

^ He was born in 1883. In 1907 he was married 
to Leila Ada Davis. They have one daughter, Eleanor Davis Pmkham, two 
years old. Mr. Pinkham is a direct descendant of a family of that name 
which settled in New Hampshire in 1627. His father was Gilbert L. 
Pinkham, of Brownville, Pa., and his mother Mary E. Myers, of Iowa 
City. la. 

^ Mr. Pinkham is a Republican. He has never held public office. 




Fred M. Powell 



■ RED M. POW- 
ELL, President and 
General Manager 
of the Automobile 
Exchange, may be consid- 
ered a product of the spirit 
of western enterprise, his 
undertakmgs having had 
their mception in the atmos- 
phere of individual strife 
which seems most strongly to prevail on the sunset side of the Rockies. 
•J Born at Glenwood, Iowa, in 1879, Mr. Powell took his start by se- 
curing an education at Drake University, at Des Moines, Iowa, after- 
wards entering the banking business in Chicago. He later proceeded 
westward until he reached the Pacific Coast and heard the call to Alaska. 
He looked that field over, full of hope, and after the experience common 
to many goldseekers, he decided there were still business opportunities 
on the outside. i| Returning to Seattle, he became identified with the 
first automobile garage established in this city. His excellent record 
as a salesman attracted the attention of one of the large Eastern factories 
and he was appointed manager of the Denver branch of the company, 
where he continued his success. €J After one year a flattering offer 
induced him to return to Seattle, and on the strength of his further showing 
in the automobile line he was persuaded to embark in business for himself 
and has been wonderfully successful, creating one of the largest establish- 
ments of its kind west of Chicago. Mr. Powell is widely known in 
the trade and by his square dealing has made friends of his hundreds 
of satisfied customers. As a natural result of his own success he has 
the welfare of the City of Seattle at heart and must be reckoned as a 
factor in its progress. 



John B. Powles 




□v^ ^j f-|~,, 



10HN BRACK POWLES has made a conspicuous success in Seat- 
tle's business world. From a small beginning he has built up a com- 
mission house that is one of the strongest institutions of the kind in 
the Northwest. 
Q Mr. Powles is forceful, energetic and far-seeing. He believes in Seattle 
and has done much in many ways to advance the interests of the city. 

Q At first hand he has studied conditions 
in Japan and the Far East. He is particularly familiar with the needs and 
the progress of Alaska. 

^ Mr. Powles is an enthusiastic automobilist, and in his machine has 
explored almost every nook of interest in Western Washington. By birth 
he is an Englishman, coming to America from London. His father, Wil- 
liam Powles, and his mother, whose maiden name was Miss Jane Brack, 
were also natives of the British metropolis. 

^ Mr. Powles and Miss Mary Jane Dixon were married just 
a few years before coming to Seattle, in 1 890. Their one daughter, Olive, 
was married within the last year. The Powles home is one of the orna- 
ments of Seventeenth Avenue, near Madison Street. 



Harold Preston 




LATiR. 

REFUSING THE. CRoi 

^■^\ AROLD PRESTON makes so much money practicing law that 
11^ he could not afford to go to the supreme bench of the state, al- 
ii^ though the elect of the bar have hoped sincerely that he would 
sacrifice himself for the public good and assume that position of 
maximum dignity and minimum pay. ^ Perhaps he could have been in- 
duced to accept, had the supreme court been located in Seattle, but it isn't, 
and there's the rub. He has figured in some of the most important litiga- 
tions in the Pacific Northwest, including the masterly Northern Pacific 
controversy years ago, when Brayton Ives, Colonel Pettit, John C. Spooner, 
General Howard and other luminaries of finance and legal lore swooped 
down upon Seattle with their railroad troubles, resulting in the appointment 
of Andrew F. Burleigh as receiver of that transcontinental Ime in Washing- 
ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. C] While Harold Preston has devoted 
himself to the law, he is one of the big men wnth whom politics has tried 
to meddle. The best thing that ever happened to him, although it was a 
bitter disappointment to his supporters, was when he was cheated of elec- 
tion to the United States Senate. When the subject is mentioned to this 
day in some quarters there will be a cry of "Traitors," with reference to 
the legislators who are popularly supposed to have sold out. By that flunk, 
Preston's public service has been narrowed to a two-year term in the state 
senate — from 1899 to 1901 — so that what the people generally have lost 
the state bar association has gained in the steady growth of Preston as a 
legal light of the first magnitude. <I He is a native of Rockford. III., and 
was born September 29, 1858. He came to Seattle in 1883, and in Feb- 
ruary, 1 888, was married to Augusta Morgenstern. They have three 
children. 



John Ewing Price 



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but 




EW of the intimate friends 
of Jofin Ewing Price, the 
banker and broker, would pic- 
ture him as an Ind an fighter, 
such he has been, and his red- 
adversaries were such 



skinned 

nowned ene- 
mies of the 
whites as Chiefs 
G u e r a n 1- 
m o, Victorio 
and Nana. It 
was back 
1882, when 
General Lew 
Wallace. the 
great writer, 
was governor 
of the territory 
of New Mex- 
ico, fl Gen- 
eral Wallace commissioned Mr. Price captain to organize the first company 
of territorial militia, to protect the settlers from the depredations of the 
warlike Indians. At that time Mr. Price had been engaged in mining 
in New Mexico and Arizona for two years, and two years later he moved 
back to Jefferson City, Mo., the home of his parents, where he acquired 
and managed the Jefferson City gas plant. ^ In 1 888 Mr. Price orga- 
nized the Bellan-Price Investment Company m Denver. In 1893 he 
constructed the first large hydraulic power plant in Colorado, upon the 
Grand River, and with the Price Irrigation Canal reclaimed many thou- 
sand acres of rich orchard land. ^ Mr. Price, with his wife and two 
sons, came to Seattle in 1902. He is a prominent clubman, and is 
interested in civic affairs. 



Patrick F. Purcell 




hood 
horses 



ATRICK F. 
PURCELL 

deals in safes 
for a liveli- 
owns fast 
for amuse- 



ment, and periodical- 
ly mixes in politics. His wares are recognized all over the Pacific North- 
west at those establishments where it is surmised that thieves are most apt to 
break in and steal, and the Purcell safes are there because they are an effective 
foil to that form of industry. ^ The Purcell horses are his hobby. They 
are known to step lively where the highways are best. But of the Purcell 
accomplishments, the greatest, according to the men who assume to know, 
is politics. Even at that, there is evidence to show that even he has "guessed 
wrong," and that the standard-bearers he picked to win have not always 
been in the lead at the polls. ^ He has never held public office, and de- 
scribes himself as an Independent; but he has played a prominent part in 
various local campaigns and more than once has brought into requisition the 
judgment and generalship that have led to victory. ^ In business life, he 
is president and treasurer of the Purcell Safe Company, and is also treasurer 
of the Tourist Hotel Company. He has lived in Seattle since I 889. <J He 
was born August 7, 1869. and since his father was bom in Ireland, and 
his mother was born in Ireland, and he himself was born in Ireland, and given 
the name Patrick, it follows that he is Irish, too. He is a safe man — be- 
cause that's his business. 



Claude C. Ramsay 




COMING of a good old southern family, Claude C. Ramsay retains 
the traditions of the South in his western environment. Royal 
entertainer and genial friend, he is one of the most popular of 
the city's successful young business men. He has built up a prom- 
inent real estate and investment business, and his prediliction for politics 
placed him in the state legislature of 1 908. At Olympia he made an 
excellent record. Q Mr. Ramsay has made his home in Seattle since 
I 890. In 1 898 he married Miss Grace Anderson, daughter of a wealthy 
and esteemed pioneer resident of the city. ^ The Ramsay family has 
had an important part in the history of the Nation, and of the Confederacy. 
Robert Ramsay, great-grandfather of Claude C, was a captain in the war 
of the Revolution, and his son David was a colonel in the War of 1812. 
James G. Ramsay, grandson of the Revolutionary fighter, and the father 
of Mr. Ramsay, was a member of the Confederate Congress during the 
Civil War. ^ Mr. Ramsay was born in North Carolina, the family homr 
since colonial days, in 1865. He is well known about Seattle's clubs, and 
is an enthusiastic automobilist. 




H. J. Ramsey 



^H^R. RAMSEY is a native of Iowa. After his preliminary edu- 
V H^ cation had been completed he studied law in the office of E. 
'^ •■•' C. Hughes in Iowa, and later in Seattle, to which place he 
came in 1 89 1 . tj When the firm of Struve, Allen, Hughes 
and McMicken was formed in 1893 Mr. Ramsey was associated with 
it as a law clerk, and became a partner when the names of Judge H. G. 
Struve and United States Senator John B. Allen were dropped and the 
present firm of Hughes, McMicken, Doveli and Ramsey was formed. 
^ Mr. Ramsey is a member of the Rainier, Seattle Athletic, and Seattle 
Press clubs, the Elks and the Chamber of Commerce, and is also a member 
of the American, Washington and Seattle Bar Associations. 



Major Ransom 




distinction 

was with 

he himself 



Jnl A J O R A R- 

fll 1 T H U R EM- 

J.ll«/ METT RAN- 
SOM is one of 
those rare souls who were 
born to the joys of gold 
braid and the fanfare of 
military life. His given 
name shows it, and his title 
is absolutely convincing. 

It is written into history that his ancestors served with 
in every war the United States has ever had; his father 
the Forty-Seventh Wisconsin during the Rebellion; and 
has seen twelve years' strenuous service in the National Guard of Wisconsin, 
Minnesota and Colorado, eight as captain and major. ^ When pageants 
dazzled the populace of St. Paul, Brigadier-General Ransom was entitled 
to ride two horses in the parade — the first as colonel of the First Regiment 
of the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias of Minnesota, and the second as 
an officer of the personal staff of Governor D. M. Clough of that state. 
Not only is he to be credited with Carnegie medals for each of the titles 
he has so gloriously won, but he can almost fly the colors of an earl, for 
all that Major General Ransom lacks of that degree of resplendent emi- 
nence is the trifling circumstance of having to annex an English estate worth 
90,000,000 pounds. ^ Notwithstanding the blare of trumpet and beat 
of drum, the subject of this sketch sometimes descends to business life, 
where he is auditor of the Northern Life Insurance Company ; but even 
as a civilian they just had to elect him vice-president of the Metropolitan 
Club. Despite the weight of honors, he is still a young man, having been 
born at Concord, Jefferson County, Wis., September 30, 1866. He has 
been a resident of Seattle since 1905, but with genuine modesty has permit- 
ted his military career to become overshadowed locally by the deeds of 
heroes like General George B. Lamping and Colonel Otto A. Case. 



J. Redelsheimer 







^fll N Jules Redelsheimer the old-timers in Seattle recognize one of the Old 
II Guard, no matter what may be the point of view. As a business 
" man he has advanced to front rank, and is most comfortably situated. 
Seattle real estate has done some wonderful things for him. 
^ At one jjoint in his career he made a study of practical politics, and was 
to be found in every municipal campaign as one of the figures to be reckoned 
with. The nearest he ever came to holding office was to aspire to appointment 
as police commissioner, but he graciously waived his claim in that particu- 
lar in favor of another eligible. 

^ He is one of the oldest and most prominent Elks in 
the city that boasts of one of the largest lodges in the United States. 
As chairman of the Elks' building committee, he is now wrestling vsnth the 
problem of financing a structure for that organization, at a cost of approx- 
imately $100,000. 



r DONrKNOW rtHfTHER) 
TO 50E FORliBtLf 
OR USE A SUN. 



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George H. Revelle 



SOUTHERNERS as a rule make good lawyers. They take to the 
law as do Californians to steam beer. It must be the immortal 
example of Henry Clay — not the cigar, but the man. ^ George 
Henry Revelle being a Southerner is a good lawyer. He is one 
of three brothers of a large family that are 'tending — no, not 'tending, 
gracing — the bar. ^ Like his brother Tom, mentioned on another page, 
Mr. Revelle comes of ancestors who settled in Somerset county, Maryland, 
in 1 634. George H. Revelle was born at Westover, Someset county, 
February 10, 1871. His father, George Roger Revelle, was born in the 
same place and his mother, Mary E. Revelle, was born at Fairmont, in the 
same count)'. ^ Mr. Revelle is a graduate of Western Maryland College, 
class of 1897, and New York University, 1901. He came to Seattle 
in 1901, and m the same year married Miss Anna Boss, August 7. They 
have one daughter, Margaret, aged five years. ^ A Republican in poli- 
tics, Mr. Revelle has never held public office. He was, for four years, 
president of the Seattle Commercial Club and a member of the board of 
directors of the same organization. 




Thos. P. Revelle 



R. REVELLE is not- 
ed for a number of 
things, including his 
"almost" election to be 
congressman from Western Wash- 
ington in the memorable election 
of 1910. which 
put Miles Poin- 
dexter into the sen- 
ate. Mr. Revelle 
came so close to 
being congressman 
that people are 
still talking about 
it. He is undoubt- 
edly our most bril- 
liant "near" con- 
gressman in many 
years. 

^ Everybody that 
knows Thomas P. 
Revelle longer than 
half an hour for- 
gets that he is the 
direct descendant of one of the gentlemen of Lord Baltimore's company 
which settled Maryland, and calls him "Tom" as readily as if his ancestors 
had just come across the water on the Lusitania. 

^ Beside being an almost congressman, Tom Revelle was a 
very live member of the city council for five years. During that time he was 
the chairman of the city council corporations committee, and accounted one 
of the most able lawmakers as well as the most brilliant orator in that last 
collection of eighteen ward councilmen. 

^ Mr. Revelle is the son of Mary Elizabeth and George 
R. Revelle, and was born in Somerset county, Maryland, 1 868. Both 
his father and mother were born on the east shore of Maryland, and the 
family has made its home in that locality since the first Revelle received 
a grant of several thousand acres from Lord Baltimore. 

<I Mr. Revelle was graduated from Western 
Maryland in 1893, and from the University of Washington in 1903. He 
is a lawyer and a Republican, and beside being a good politician, is state 
banker of the Modern Woodmen. Mr. Revelle and Miss Lida Jefferson 
Boggs, of Dover, Del., were married in 1897. They have four children, 
Paul, aged 1 I , Mary Letitia, aged 9, Helen Jefferson, aged 7, and Thomas, 
Jr.. aged 3. 




Albert J. Rhodes 



aLBERT JAMES RHODES is head of the Rhodes Company, 
which operates three of the biggest department stores in the Pacific 
Northwest. Two Rhodes' stores in Seattle and one in Tacoma 
employ many hundreds and handle immense stocks. 
^ In addition to his mercantile interests, Mr. Rhodes handles wheat and 
irrigated fruit lands at Wenatchee. He is an enthusiast over the Pacific North- 
west, and especially the Puget Sound country. In I 889, he left Chicago to 
make a tour of the Pacific Northwest. It was then that he selected Puget 
Sound as a base of business operations. 

^ Mr. Rhodes is the son of Joshua Rhodes and 
Susan E. Stevens. His father came from Yorkshire, England. His mother 
comes of a Scotch family which settled in Vermont. Mr. Rhodes was born 
at Trempralean, Wisconsin, December 31, 1864. 
^ In 1893 Mr. Rhodes was married to Miss Hattie Williams. 




iam F. Richardson 



4|» OOT MON! 
11^ ^ We hae with us here ane braw Scot. Let the bagpipes 
"^ skirl and the porritch simmer the whiles we introduce William 
Forrest Richardson. 

^ He's a Scotsman through and through with the exception of the fact 

that he was born at Valetti, Ontario. Being a Scotsman, he is a keen 

business man, and that probably explains why he is manager of John A. 

Roebling's Sons, the big wire rope manufacturers. 

<I Mr. Richardson is the son 

of Catherine Oswald and William Richardson, both natives of Scotland. 

He received his educa'.ion in the world of business and made his way 

rapidly to the top. He was married in 1 903 to Miss Rosalie Fleming. 

They have four children, Alice, I 7 ; Philo, I 5 ; Forrest, 8, and Edith, 

6 years old. 

^ A member of the Republican party, Mr. Richardson has never 

held public office. He is a prominent clubman and member of the 

Rainier, Seattle Golf and Country, Arctic and Seattle Athletic Clubs. 

He is a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, and a Mason. 



Dr. E. M. Rininger 




®NE of the events ,£>j to distinguish the career of Dr. Ed- 

mund Marburg Rininger was his choice as medical 

director of the Alaska-\'ukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. He 
held that important place throughout Seattle's great fair, and 
met the responsibilities attaching to it in a way to arouse the highest 
commendation. As a practitioner he is known in Washington and Alaska. 
^ By birth and parentage Dr. Rininger is essentially of the land of Wil- 
liam Penn. His father and mother were both Pennsylvanians, and he 
himself was born at Schellsburg, in that state, March 7, 1870. He is 
the son of E. L. Rininger and Margaret Hoover Rininger. His father 
was a native of Schellsburg and his mother was born at Wolfesburg. 
^ Dr. Rininger is a graduate of Marion Sims Medical College, class of 
1893. He came to Seattle in 1905. fl Dr. Rininger was married to 
Miss Nellie M. Powers, July 11, 1893. They have one daughter, 
Helen Dorothy Rininger, aged ten years. ^ Dr. Rininger is a member 
of the Masonic fraternity and a Mystic Shriner. He is a member of the 
Rainier, Seattle Athletic, Golf and Country, and Arctic clubs. 



Chester E. Roberts 




W%^ 



CHESTER E. ROBERTS, secretary and manager of the Imperial 
Candy Company, is a Westerner, born and bred, and the story of his 
life in Seattle is essentially the story of Western initiative and pluck. 
CJ He was graduated from the High School of his home town 
in Kansas in 1 899 and came to Seattle in May, 1 900. Before he had 
been in town two days he got a job in the Armour packmg house. It was 
not a clean and easy job in the office, but a greasy job among the hams and 
bacon. Promotion came in a few months, and Mr. Roberts went upon 
the road as a traveling salesman, covering Northwest Washington, and af- 
terward to the Alaska territory. 

<I In the meanwhile he invested his savings in Seattle real estate 
and resigned his position in 1 906 at which time the Imperial Candy Com- 
pany was organized. In four years this concern has grown from nothing 
to a great manufacturing business occupying 30,000 feet of floor space, em- 
ploying 1 50 workmen and producing one million pounds of sweets each 
year, including the now famous brand "Societe Chocolates." Its goods 
for local consumption are delivered by automobile and its salesmen are cov- 
ering Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. A branch house has re- 
cently been opened in Portland. 

^ Mr. Roberts married a Kansas girl, has one daughter, and owns his home. 
He is a Republican and an enthusiastic believer in Seattle and the North- 
west. 



John W. Roberts 




^&t N offering a biography of John W. Roberts, the Cartoonists' Club 
II refers solely to John William Roberts, a:torney-at-law. 
H ^ John William Roberts is a Virginian by birth and an attomey-at- 
law by inclination. He is both a good Virginian and a good attor- 
ney, and he is prommenl m various public affairs, both political and other- 
wise. 

^ Mr. Roberts is the son of Isaac Roberts of Charleston, West Virginia, 
and Margaret E. Roberts of Elizabethtown, West Virginia. He was born 
at Elizabethtown, December 29, 1 859. The Roberts family came origin- 
ally from Wales to West Virginia. 

^ Mr. Roberts is a grad j ite of the state university of Kan- 
sas, class of 1 888. He came to Seattle m the month of May, 1 900, and 
has made his home here since that time. He was married to Olive Willett, 
June 29, 1892. They have two children, Dorothy, aged 1 7, and Dudley, 
aged 1 4. Mr. Roberts is an active Republican. He has never sought 
public office. 




G. S. Robison 



6S. ROBISON has such an innocent, smiling face that a stranger 
might be excused for addressing him as a minister of the gospel. 
^ He is the last man in Seattle whom anyone would suspect of tak- 
ing liberties with anything. But it is a fact that cannot successfully 
be denied that Robison committed a crime on the Chinook jargon, and ab- 
squatulated with that radiant, onomatopoetic term, "Tumwater." He did 
it as a matter of business — for by that word is to be understood "Um-m-m-m 
water," meaning literally a waterfall that makes a drowsy, msidious, caress- 

mg noise. „ .,„,. , , ■ ■ , . 

tJI With this introduction there is no 

need to observe that Robison is Seattle manager of the Olympic Brewing 

Company, and that every day in the year, by reason of his pilfering touch 

upon the noble Chinook, he is able to distribute thousands of cases of the 

beverage which rejoices the palate of his customers and at the same time 

contributes mightily to the treasury of his company. 

^ It would be useless to prosecute Robison for his act 

of outlawry, since his goodfellowship, sustained by "Tumwater," which 

has made necessity a virtue, would instantly clear him. 

^ If he were to be asked his business, he would instantly reply "Brewer." 

and then he would add the saying that everybody recognizes by a certain 

and unfailing instinct, ''It's the water." It is — "Um-m-m-m," with a 

noise like a gurgle. 




F. S. Roddy 



CHE large business developed by the Seattle Paint Company, which is 
the biggest establishment of the kmd in the Northwest, is due in lib- 
eral measure to the capability of F. S. Roddy, manager of the com- 
pany and its active executive head. 
^ Though only about seven years old the Seattle Paint Company 
has made its product known all through this territory, and in Alaska, and 
operates a factory in Seattle's southern manufacturing district that notably 
swells Seattle's industrial payroll. 

^ The main offices of the company, with its sales- 
room, are at 309 First Avenue South. A number of prominent Seattle per- 
sons are interested in the growing concern, the president being John Schram. 

^ Mr. Roddy was well equipped 
for entering the paint business when he came to Seattle from Chicago in 
1 904, as he had been engaged in the same line for a number of years. He 
has made himself well known and popular in this city, and is a member of 
the Rainier, Golf and Country and Arctic Clubs, and of the Chamber of 
Commerce. His residence is on Capitol Hill. 



Judge J. T. Ronald 



m 




HENEVER Democrats gather, y)^'*^...' 
which is about as often as people ([n}, 



begin to take an interest in politics. 

and everybody present except the newspaper reporters has paid 
his dollar for the "banquet," or, for that matter, whenever any public 
dinner of importance has proceeded to the same epoch-marking stage; 
and the well-fed diners fire their cigars, the chairman of the evening rises 
to call upon Judge James T. Ronald, the staunchest Democrat and noblest 
Roman of them all. When, therefore, the chairman rises and peers over 
his blinding expanse of virgin shirt front to mtroduce the speaker of the 
evening he mentions, in the course of his remarks a fact which no conscien- 
tious biographer should overlook. 

^ When Judge Ronald left Missouri, his boyhood home, it is said 
his family put blinders on him to keep him from shying at the trains. There 
you have it. Judge Ronald is from Missouri. He is one of the thousands 
who must be shown, and, being shown, he makes up his own mind with- 
out assistance. Perhaps that's why he made a good judge and still makes 
a first rate lawyer. 

^ Although from Missouri, Judge Ronald was 
born in Virginia, of Virginia parentage, A. G. Ronald and Amanda 
Carson Ronald. He modestly concealed the exact date of his birth in 
supplying the material for this biography by stating in answer to "Where 
Born and When," "Virginia, 1820-1830." 

^ Judge Ronald received his education in 
the Missouri state normal school, graduating in 1875. He came to Se- 
attle in 1882. He was married in 1877. 

C| From January, 1885, to March, 1889, he served as prosecuting at- 
torney of King County. He is now an incumbent of the superior court 
bench. Needless to say again that he is a Democrat. Concerning any 
other facts about himself he has written "Let charity conceal them." 



.v^- as s ea s! ^ --:' - it^niOf^SAr'tK .^ ^J 




Judge Milo A. Root 



4lfM AVING attained the highest honors of the Washington bench, 
11^ Judge Milo A. Root is one of the foremost jurists and legal lights 
'"^ of the Commonwealth. Judge Root was for two years prosecuting 
attorney, then was for four years probate judge of King County, and from the 
Superior judgeship was elevated to the State Supreme Court, where he served 
for another four years. His prominence in municipal and state affairs has 
made his name known far and wide. ^ Judge Root comes of a distin- 
guished family. His great grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, and 
his grandfather was a hero of the war of 1812. His father, William H. 
Root, was a native of Alleghany County, New York, and his mother, who 
was Miss Cordelia Holroyd, was born in the same state. ^ Judge Root 
saw the light of day first at Wyanet, 111., January 22, 1863. His educa- 
tion he gained in the public schools, and in the law department of Union 
College, and at the Albany Law School. ^ He became a resident of the 
territory of Washington in 1 883. Seven years later Miss Anna E. Lans- 
dale became Mrs. Root, and the family came to Seattle to live in 1897. 
Judge and Mrs. Root have six children. The family home is on Beacon 
Hill. Judge Root's offices are in the Lowman Building. 



John Rosene 



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10HN ROSENE is one of the empire builders who first saw 
the great possibilities of Alaska, and exploited them with capital. A 
man with no schooling, as he himself states, he has played a big 
part in the making of Alaskan history and won a fortune from the 
golden north by sheer ability. 

^ Among the numerous big enterprises in which he took a 
hand, Mr. Rosene was instrumental in the development of Alaskan fish- 
eries. He was responsible for J. P. Morgan's interest in the Northwestern 
Fisheries, afterwards exploited by the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate and 
recently sold to the Booth syndicate. This was one of his many interests 
in Alaskan development. As president of the Northern Exploitation and 
Development Co., Mr. Rosene is playing a big hand in the game. 

^ John Rosene was born in Nor- 
way, September 21, I 860. He is married and has made his home in Seat- 
tle for many years. He is a member of the Lawyers' Club of New York, 
and the Rainier and Arctic Clubs of Seattle. He is a Knight Templar, a 
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Nile Temple 
of the Shrine. 




Phillip Rowe 



THIS tS 
MV Busy 



•M^HILLIP ROWE is the president of the Halhdie Machinery Co. 
11^ He is also president of the California Wire Works. These two 
MM' jobs have kept him too busy to hold public office, fl Mr. Rowe 
is a Welshman by birth. His father, Phillip Rowe, and his 
mother, Elizabeth, were born in England. Mr. Rowe was born in Wales 
in February, 1871. 

^ Mr. Rowe never went to school. He made his way 
unaided and he made it well. 

^ Ten years ago Mr. Rowe was married to Miss Florence Doyen. 
At the same time he decided that Seattle was a good town to live in. 
As head of two big manufacturing and sellmg corporations he has done 
much toward the commercial advancement of this city and the making 
of his own business success. 



Geo. H. Rummens 




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HEN George H. Rummens isn't practicing law, it's a safe guess 
that he's at the Elks' headquarters in the Alaska Building; and 
if by some mischance he is not at the Elks' it is a 1 to 1 shot 
that he is at the Press Club in the Eilers Building. This is only 
another way of stating that he has the qualities of a "mixer, " somewhat 
highly developed. 

^ If his hours are not fixed by a stop-watch, that does not alter the fact 
that his system of procedure is pretty close to perfection. The first part of 
the day is devoted to the law; the second part to the lodge, and the third 
part to current literature; but perhaps it were an unjust thing to record the 
visitations among the newspaper fraternity, where he is rated as an "asso- 
ciate member," for in that circle there is literally no night, and sometimes 
the fourth part of the day is overlooked on account of its evanescence. 

^ But for all that, Rummens, in com- 
mon with other members, has the opportunity once in awhile to get home and 
renew family acquaintances. 

^ Rummens belongs to a genus sufficiently rare in the State of 
Washington, for he is actually rated as a "native son." He was born in 
Goldendale, March 16, 1878. His father was born in Wisconsin, and 
his mother in Illinois. He belongs to the Republican party, by which he was 
elected prosecuting attorney of Asotin county in 1903. He served in that 
position until 1907, when he moved to Seattle. 

^ He was married October 5, 1904, to Miss 
Mae Steen, and has a family of two, a boy and a girl. 




George F. Russell 



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EORGE FREDERICK RUS- 
SELL, our handsome and efficient 
postmaster, is a real, dyed in the 
wool, guaranteed and warranted na- 
tive son. He was born in Seattle, way back September 30, 1873. Not 
only is Mr. Russell a real native son, but his parents were real pioneers. 
Q Nowadays, when the "real" pioneers have incorporated themselves and 
raise particular Cain with anybody who innocently refers to one of the un- 
incorporated, that came to Seattle on a train, as one of the elect, writers 
should use the greatest care in referring to a real pioneer. Inasmuch as 
George Russell's father, Thomas S. Russell, came to Seattle in 1852, and 
his mother, Sarah Jane Gallagher, came here in 1865, by Heck, we defy 
Clarence Bagley and all the incorporated to find fault with that statement. 
♦J Mr. Russell, being born as recently as 1873, we shall not refer to him 
as a pioneer, but he certainly has lived in Seattle just as long as he could. 
His father was a native of Ralston, Ohio, and his mother, who is a daugh- 
ter of the famous Ben Butler's law partner, came west from Lowell, Mass. 
^ George F. Russell was educated in Seattle public schools. When it 
came time for him to get out and hustle for himself he proved ready to 
try anything. He was in turn a stevedore, grocer, real estate dealer and 
mining man. He was also a consistent Republican and served as city 
treasurer, from which position he was appointed, four years ago, to serve 
as postmaster. ^ On May 15, 1904, Mr. Russell married Minerva R. 
Judd. They have one daughter, Dorothy S., aged five years. 



Fred E. Sander 



SAY fredI 

INVEST THIS 
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N Seattle there is one thing rarer than 
a day in June — and that is the day 
when Fred E. Sander does not pro- 
ject and build a new railroad some- 
where. He states that his business is a "broker," but everybody the least 
familiar with the city's history knows that he has laid out enough street car 
transportation to give an aviator a fair start toward the moon, provided the 
tracks were all joined and pointed in the right direction. ^ If Sander did not 
build the first street railway in Seattle, he was on the ground before the 
echoes of the gong had died away, and he has been steadily at it ever since. 
He blossomed into prominence when electricity came to the front as motive 
power, and he has kept pace with the development of that form of energy — ■ 
which is only another way of observing that Sander is decidedly a live wire. 
No difference which way a new street car line trends, north or south, Sander 
is pretty apt to be found as the projector. ^ It's as easy as pie for him to 
start an enterprise like the Everett Interurban, and then turn it over to the 
Stone- Webster corporations; and just as likely as not he will have a line to 
Bothell one of these fine mornings, before the rest of the town is entirely 
awake. When Sander was asked if he had held public office, he answered 
in the negative, and added, "I do not want any." Of course not. He 
doesn't need it. He is that rare combination, a Democrat without office- 
seeking proclivities. ^ He was born in Corinth, Miss. His father was a 
native of Hanover, Germany, and his mother of England. Sander came to 
Seattle in 1879. He has worked every day and night since that date, and 
has developed street car projection into a recognized, legitimate industry. 



R. Sartori 




a NATIVE of Switzerland, R. Sartori came to the United States 
when a lad of 1 6 — and he never has been known to regret com- 
ing, even though the land of William Tell is one of beauty. For 
a number of years in his young manhood, Mr. Sartori lived in 
California, and came to Seattle to engage in business in i 888, the year 
before the great fire. C] His business success enabled him to make large 
investments, and his natural sagacity directed him into the right course, 
so today he is regarded as a man of independent means. ^ For the last 
seven years he has been engaged in the real estate and investment line, 
w\th offices in the Collins building. Also he is secretary and treasurer 
of the Seattle Grain Drying Company, which operates a plant at George- 
town. ^ The Sartori residence is a handsome place on the First hill, 
bounded by Minor avenue, Jefferson street and Broadway. Mr. Sartori 
is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Commercial Club, of 
the Arctic Club, and of the Seattle Athletic Club. 



Joseph Schlumpf 







^tfV T was in the day of Sixteen-to-One that Joseph Schlumpf first began 
II to feel the enlivening influence of politics; but it required no less 
II than fourteen years for him to land in a position giving him a modest 
chance to save his country. From I 896 to 1 9 1 is a pretty far cry 
when one is willing to hold office, but Mr. Schlumpf was patient — and the 
last named year found him comfortably estabhshed as one of Seattle's coun- 
cilmen. He had just secured the passage of his weights and measures or- 
dinance, a piece of legislation that has since resulted in putting dishonesc 
scales out of business in Seattle, when along came an amendment to the 
city charter providing for the election of all councilmen at large. 

*! Mr. Schlumpf tried tor it, but the result 
was as if he had been weighed in the balances himself. His case was very 
like that of a noted ruler, for 

"The King of France went up the hill, with 20,000 men; 

The King of France came down the hill, and ne'er went up again." 

^ Mr. Schlumpf is no longer in the council — but who 

knows what may happen in these days of direct primary and equal suffrage — 

for he is not only a handsome man, but an able campaigner, with a gift of 

telling a good story inimitably. 




Carl Schmitz 



,— g%VERYBODY knows Carl Schmitz — but especially do those who 
|B# are interested in good things to eat. Put it this way: when you 
^^f think of good things to eat in a down-town cafe your mind nat- 
urally pictures a brightly illuminated and most attractive resort 
presided over by his Germanic Majesty Carl Schmitz. It's a picture that 
causes the mouth to water, and the olfactory nerves to convey impressions 
of keen delight. ^ For years Carl Schmitz was the Rathskeller and the 
Rathskeller was Carl Schmitz, but now with the removal of that famous 
gastronomic palace to an elevated location on Second avenue the familiar 
face has returned again to the former location, and the Carl Schmitz of 
old is to be found in the basement of the majestic new Hoge building, on 
the site where the old Rathskeller had its abode. ^, Carl Schmitz, who 
is a nephew of the Seattle capitalist, Ferdinand Schmitz, member of the 
Seattle Park Board, and donor of Schmitz Park to the city, makes his 
home in the Washington Apartments. 



rdinailjd Schmitz 




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[AM an optimist," writes Ferdinand Schmitz, in supplying data for 
this sketch. Those who have known Mr. Schmitz since he came 
to Seattle in 1887, will vouch for the truth of the statement. 
He is an optimist and his particular optimism is over the future of Seattle 
and her park system. <I Ferdinand Schmitz was born in Germany at Duis- 
burg, December 5, 1860. His father, Ferdinand Schmitz, was a black- 
smith by trade, and the family has for generations consisted of respected 
citizens. His mother, Fredericka Moeller Schmitz, was a native of Luenen. 
^ In 1879 Mr. Schmitz came to the United States and in 1887 he came 
to Seattle, where he has since made his home. He describes his business 
as an agriculturist and his profession as a hotel man. As one of the 
proprietors of the Hotel Butler, Mr. Schmitz built up a splendid business 
so that he can well afford to be an agriculturist if he wants to. ^ Ferdinand 
Schmitz was the first councilman elected from the Fourteenth ward. He is 
now a member of the city park board, and he has shown his love for this 
public work by the donation to the city of Schmitz park. Mr. Schmitz is 
a Republican in politics. ^ In 1 889 Miss Emma Althoff, of Seattle, be- 
came Mrs. Schmitz. The wedding was celebrated July 5, only a couple 
of weeks after the city had been laid waste by fire. They have four children, 
three boys, 7, 1 8 and 20 years old, and a daughter 1 6 years old. ^ In 
addition to being a member of the park board, Mr. Schmitz is a director 
of the Union Savings & Trust Co. 




Corwin S. Shank 



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ORWIN S. SHANK 
believes ardently that 
the front yard of the 
United States is the 
Pacific Coast, and that the 
vista of opportunity for na- 
tion and individual is opened toward the Orient seas. Ask any of the acute 
and enterprising Japanese residents of Seattle for the name of leading law- 
yers, and the reply would almost certainly include the name of Mr. Shank. 

^ He maintains close business relations 
with some of the most prominent among the subjects of the Mikado in the 
State of Washington. 

^ At the same time, it must not be understood that Mr. Shank has made 
a specialty of that kind of law business. He is rated high among the practi- 
tioners of the state. Aside from the law, he is an energetic citizen and dis- 
posed to take part in matters affecting the public welfare. 

^ Religiously, he is a Baptist, and has carried into 
the affairs of that denomination the same activity that has distinguished him 
in other particulars. His abilities have been recognized in his appointment 
as president of the board of managers of the Washington State Reformatory. 

^ He is a graduate 
of Yale, and has been granted the degrees LL. B. and LL. D. He was 
bom in Ohio, September 1 4, 1 866, is married, and in addition to being a 
Shriner is a member of the Rainier and Arctic Clubs. 



Dr. W. A. Shannon 




fOR many years Dr. W. A. Shannon has been a foremost figure in 
the medical profession of Seattle. His ability and skill have received 
abundant testimonial, his election to the presidency of the King 
County Medical Association being the tribute paid to him by the 
physicians and surgeons of his owti home. 

fl Recognition has come to hira in many other ways as 
well. He was formerly a member of the state board of health of Washing- 
ton. 

fl Dr. Shannon is a native of Canada, and was graduated into his profes- 
sion from a leading Toronto institution. Shortly before Washington was 
admitted to statehood both he and his brother. Dr. James Shannon, came to 
Seattle. Through the years they have been closely associated, and now have 
one of the handsomest suites of offices in the Cobb Building, erected espec- 
ially for the medical and dental fraternities. 

^ Dr. Shannon has taken a deep interest in politics, 
from a Democratic point of view, and frequently has been honored with 
nominations for office by his party. However, he has never seriously sought 
for preferment of this sort. He is well known in the world of clubs, and 
has a magnificent residence at the corner of Summit Avenue and Marion 
Street. 




J. B. Shorett 



10HN B. SHOR-i 
ETT has been be- 
fore the people of 
Seattle prominently 
for the past two years as an active promoter of the Duwamish project, 
which will provide Seattle with an extensive industrial harbor. Mr. Shorett 
was the first president of the Association of South End Improvement Clubs, 
which was organized to promote the Duwamish project more than two years 
ago, and became the attorney for the Duwamish River Improvement Club 
soon after its organization in February, 1 908. 

^ As attorney for the Duwamish River Improvement 
Club, Mr. Shorett was the author of the commercial waterway law under 
which the district was formed, which is now proceedmg with the industrial 
development of the Duwamish Valley. Following the organization of the 
district he became attorney for the Waterway Commission, and has per- 
formed all the legal work in that connection. The condemnation and as- 
sessment cases connected with that great project, and totaling the sum of 
$1,500,000.00, are an important part of his duties. 

<]] Mr. Shorett is a resident of West Seattle and 
President of the Federated Improvement Clubs of the I 4th ward. He was 
born in Whiteside County, Illinois, but spent most of his life, prior to com- 
ing to Seattle, in 1901, in Shelby County, Iowa. 



Daniel Page Simons, Jr. 



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,ANIEL PAGE SIMONS, Jr.. 
the fearless foe of the fire fiend. 
The title sounds reminiscent of 
Frank Merriwell, but in sober 
truth, if anybody ever earned it, then the 
chief fire warden of the Washington Forest Fire Association has. ^ A few 
months ago the Northwest Pacific coast was draped in a pall of thick yellow 
smoke. A few miles out of Seattle lamps were kept lit all day in the farm 
houses. Up in the hills acres of fine standing timber melted like wax be- 
fore the flash and roar of great sheets of flame. ^ There were fires in half a 
hundred different places at one time. The entire West was swept by flames. 
Homeless families fled for their lives before the onslaught. Men died who 
delayed a few moments in their retreat. At that particular time. Fire Warden 
Simons demonstrated that he was the man for the job. ^ Without sleep, al- 
most without food, he was everywhere along the battle line. In the dead 
of night he would start by automobile, carrying food and supplies to the 
gangs that were sweating to keep the blaze m check. His work required 
judgment and generalship and he showed both. The results of all this work 
was the saving of life and property worth millions. IJDaniel Page Simons, Jr., 
was bom in Eau Claire, Wis., May 3, 1879. His father was Daniel Page 
Simons, of Dryden, N. Y., and his mother Mary Cochran, a native of San- 
dusky, Ohio. Mr. Simons came to Seattle in 1 899. He adopted the deal- 
ing in timber lands as his business and conservation as a profession. Mr. 
Simons is now manager of the Sound Timber Co. and agent for the Sage 
Land Improvement Co. He is a member of the commission on forest leg- 
islation appointed by Governor M. E. Hay. He is a Republican, but has 
never held public office. In February, 1901, Mr. Simons married Miss 
Dora Johnson. They have one son, Charles C. Simons, eight years old. 




Samuel A. Sizer 



aT about 
the time 
t h e ten- 
d e r f o ot 
has wandered deep 
into the secluded 
wood and begins 
to think he is at 

last in the forest primeval, he is liable to stumble across the name ol 
some street along with a bunch of town lot stakes. Even the adventurer who 
gets miles away from the city and hies himself into the mountains, wander- 
ing among the tall pines and firs, meditating on the beauty of nature un- 
adorned by saw mills and cement pavements, is likely to find a neat little 
real estate dealer's sign to spoil the illusion. 

^ Samuel A. Sizer is a real estate dealer, 
operating on a large scale. Where other men sell town lots he deals in 
mountain sides and kingdoms. Mr. Sizer announces himself as a dealer 
in agricultural and timber lands, and, as such, he is necessarily on friendly 
terms with every hkely looking standing tree in the Pacific Northwest. 

^ Formerly vice president of Robert R. Sizer & 
Co., Inc., lumber dealers of New York City, Mr. Sizer is now president 
of the Paradise Orchard Land Co., and secretary of the Jos. N. Britten 
Land & Timber Co. 

^ Mr. Sizer is the son of Elizabeth Gains and Augustus Sizer, Virginians, 
and was born in that state in 1866. He was graduated from Virginia 
Agricultural and Mechanical College and interested himself in the timber 
industry. Mr. Sizer came to Seattle in June, 1 908, and has since made 
his home in this city. He is married and has three children. He is a 
member of the state committee of Washington for the National League for 
Medical Freedom. 



Fred E. Skov 




411 DENTIFIED with Seattle's banking interests for a number o( 
II years, Fred E. Skov has also been a most potent factor in the 
*■ development of Mercer Island, in Lake Washington, where he has 
made his home since I 904. ^ Before becoming connected with the 
National Bank of Commerce, in the same year, Mr. Skov dealt in real 
estate extensively. What has been accomplished on the island is appar- 
ent when values today are compared with those obtaining seven years 
ago. Waterfront lots then were bringing about $25, while inside lots 
were selling as low as $ 1 apiece. ^ Now good waterfrontage around 
East Seattle is valued at $50 a front foot, with the interior prices in 
proportion. Mr. Skov came to Seattle in 1 902 from Chicago, his birth- 
place, where he gained his education in the public schools. ^ His ad- 
vancement has been rapid in the National Bank of Commerce. His 
clubs include the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Club, 
the Arctic and the Rotary, in which latter hustling organization he is 
a prominent figure. 



James C. Snyder 




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HEREVER mystery deepens about loss of life in King County, 
there will be found James Claywell Snyder, in his official 
capacity. He is coroner. In 1909-10 he was chosen for the 
two-year term, and in that responsible position performed his 
services so satisfactorily to the people that he was renominated at the Sep- 
tember primary, and again elected in November for 191 1-12. ^ His peo- 
ple, both paternal and maternal, fought in the Revolutionary War and also 
in the Civil War, giving to him a well-defined status as a citizen whose for- 
bears have possessed the fighting quality. ^ He was born in Johnson City, 
Tenn., January 4, 1874, the state in which his mother had been born. His 
father was a native of Virginia. In addition to having been twice elected 
coroner. Dr. Snyder has been chosen secretary of the State Coroners' Asso- 
ciation, and he has also served as medical examiner of the Knights of Pythias. 
^ He is Republican in politics. He came to Seattle in 1 889. In I 894-5-6 
he attended the University of Washington, and in 1903 took the degree of 
M. D. at Cooper's Medical College. ^ Dr. Snyder was married Feb- 
ruary 26, 1907. to Miss Gertrude Moore. They have one daughter, born 
September 27, 1910. 




A. H. Soelberg 




4n\ ORWAY has sent many of 

ll|M her sons to Washington, 

II W ^''^ ^^^y have made strong 
and useful citizens. Sev- 
eral have gained prominence as 
bankers, among them the career of 

Axel Herman Soelberg is a notable example. Mr. Soelberg is regarded as 
one of the best informed and most careful bankers in the Northwest. For 
a number of years he was cashier and vice president of the Scandinavian- 
American Bank, but in 1 905 left that financial institution to form the State 
Bank of Seattle, of which he is vice president and cashier. ^ The State 
Bank has made remarkably fine progress, and is developing into one of the 
strong banks of Seattle. It now occupies handsome quarters in the Mutual 
Life Building, across Yesler Way from its old location. ^ Mr. Soelberg 
was bom in Norway March 2. 1869. He was graduated from the high 
school course in his native land, and came to Seattle in 1892. January 5, 
1898, he married Miss Olga Wickstrom, and they have three children, 
Adene, aged I I ; Anna Louise, aged 8, and Richard, little more than a 
baby. 

^ Mr. Soelberg is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Commer- 
cial Club, of the Arctic Club, the Rainier Club, and the Seattle Golf and 
Country Club. He has made himself especially conversant with Alaska 
affairs, and served as one of the representatives of the Chamber of Com- 
merce on the joint Alaska committee of the various Seattle commercial bodies. 



Jame$ W. Spangler 




SEATTLE is noteworthy for its young men who have achieved 
eminence in the banking world. James WilHams Spangler won 
his first prominence as an expert in the credit department, and so 
much attention did his work there gain that he was elected an 
officer of the National Credit Men's Association, conferring a special 
honor upon Seattle. Q Mr. Spangler w^as credit man for the Dexter 
Horton Bank until early in 1911, when he became vice-president of the Se- 
attle National Bank, being one of the youngest bank vice-presidents in the 
state. He is also secretary of the Seattle Clearing House Association. ^ Mr. 
Spangler's father, James W. Spangler, was a Methodist Episcopal cler- 
gyman and veteran of the Civil War — a native of Pennsylvania. The 
son is a westerner, having been born near Yankton, S. D., August 5, 
1874. Although a Republican, he has never taken an active part in 
politics. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Spangler — Mrs. Spangler was Miss Georgia 
Mabel MacLeod — have a pretty home on Capitol Hill. Mr. Spangler 
is a /amiliar figure in clubdom, and is always popular wherever he goes. 



R. R. Spencer 




^g% OR more than a 
^W' score of years R. 
Jp R. Spencer has 
been regarded as 
one of the leading finan- 
cial figures of the North- 
west. During almost all that time he has been connected with the National 
Bank of Commerce, first, as a lesser and then as one of the chief officials, 
and when the Washington National Bank and the National Bank of Com- 
merce were united he held the vice president's chair. 

^ Mr. Spencer's technical knowledge of banking is such that he 
is accorded the highest rating among trained bankers, and he is regarded as 
a type of man most valuable for any successful financial institution. 

^ In the last few years Mr. Spencer nas traveled 
extensively, but he prefers to spend most of his time in Seattle, where he has 
large interests. At the clubs he is a familiar and always a welcome figure. 
His membership in the Rainier Club dates back many years. 

^ Mr. Spencer has two children, a 
son, who is completing his education at an eastern college, and a daughter, 
Mrs. George E. De Steiguer, v^rife of a prominent and successful Seattle 
attorney. 




Livingston Boyd Stedman 



'HERE are marks of high distinc- 
tion in the three-fold name of 
Livingston Boyd Stedman, and 
the possessor thereof has added to 
them by managing to have been born in Bos'on, to have been graduated at 
Harvard, and to have earned generous recognition at the bar. 

fl Not content 
with having received the A. B. degree at Harvard in 1887, he kept steadily 
at scholastic endeavor and earned for himself A. M. in 1 890. Having 
plumed himself with those laurels, he set out in I 890 on the adventurous 
journey to the Puget Sound, with the determination to practice law. He 
reached this city August I , and since that time has become conspicuous 
as one of the luminaries of the profession. 

^ Not only is it a matter of pride with him that he has taken 
two degrees at Harvard, but; he cites as worth while his early training at 
Dorchester, where he was a student in one of the first public schools estab- 
lished in the United States. 

^ In Seattle he is listed among the organizers of the University Club and 
is one of the charter members of the Seattle Athletic Club. He is also a 
member of the Harvard Club of Washington, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, 
and the Sons of the American Revolution. He was born February 2, 1864. 



R. G. Stevenson 




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CAYING of asphalt pavement and more particularly finding more 
places where people are willing to pay to have the pavement laid is 
the business of R. G. Stevenson. Mr. Stevenson is district manager 
of the Barber Asphalt Paving Company. 
^ Mr. Stevenson was born in Scotland on February 18, 1871. He re- 
ceived a high school and business education and turned his attention to as- 
phalt paving with great success. 

<I Mr. Stevenson married Miss Margaret Lynd. He makes his home 
at 1415 East Thomas street. Mr. Stevenson is a member of the Arctic 
and Rotary Clubs, and the Chamber of Commerce. He is also an Elk. 



Fred S. Stimson 




^^^ O find a more likeable and personally popular chap than Fred S. 
^ \ Stimson would be difficult indeed. Although he is wealthy, that 
^^" doesn't seem to hurt him a bit. He goes through life smiling and 
happy, without letting his worldly goods worry him much, fl As 
a matter of fact, the mill interests of the Stimson family were very heavy 
before Fred Stimson and his brother, C. D. Stimson, invaded the Wash- 
ington forests. Their father was one of the promment figures in the lum- 
ber industry of the Lake region. The Stimson mills at Ballard have been 
among the most successful on the coast. ^ But Fred Stimson's activities 
are not confined to the making of boards or shingles. He is a heavy real 
estate holder, and is president of the Yakutat & Southern Railway Company, 
with offices in the Alaska building. And then, Mr. Stimson is a great 
golfer and automobiHst. He takes keen delight in advising Mrs. Stimson 
in her eminently successful venture as proprietor of the Hollywood Gardens, 
the finest in the Northwest. ^ The Stimson estate on Lake Washington 
is destined to become one of the most magnificent in the country. 




H. P. Strickland 



CHE marvelously complete and wonderfully artistic plant of the 
Vulcan Iron Works will remain for many years to come a 
monument to its builder, H. P. Strickland, although he has re- 
signed from its active management. Scarcely such another plant 
is to be found the country over. That its builder has taste and a love for 
the beautiful is evidenced by the parking system in the big establishment, 
and the flower gardens that were made to garland each building of the 
works. ^ The original plant of the Vulcan Iron Works was erected 
by I. Hulme, step-father of Mr. Strickland. At the death of Mr. Hulme 
Mr. Strickland became the head of the institution, and following the sale 
of the original location to the Oregon-Washington Railway & Naviga- 
tion Company for a part of the passenger terminal site, the new Vulcan Iron 
Works arose at a point considerably further south. It is one of the show 
places of Seattle's manufacturing district. ^ Mr. Strickland is a man of 
great artistic and literary taste, as his home abundantly shows. He pos- 
sesses one of the finest private libraries in the Northwest, including many 
quaint and rare editions. 



Fredrick K. Struve 



I'M PRESIDENT OF 
0R06R. QP BORROWERS, 

^N0 ReciuesT from 

VOUR. BftNK, A. BON- 
'^TlON TOWARD 
TH^ ERECT\ON OF 
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imPlCENT, PB-OS - 
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j^REDERICK KARL STRUVE is a native son of Washington. 

Il Born at Vancouver, Washington Territory, June 17, 1871, he 

4V has spent the better part of his life in the West, buying and selling 

Seattle real estate and building up one of the largest and most 

substantial real estate and property interests in the city. 

^ Just eight years after he was born, Mr. Struve enrolled himself 
as a citizen of Seattle. He received a common school education here 
and attended the University of Michigan. 

^ In addition to real estate and property interests, 
Mr. Struve is vice president of the Seattle National Bank, vice president 
of John Davis & Co., and president of the Davis-Struve Bond Co. 

^ Mr. Struve is the son of Henry G. 
Struve, a native of Oldenburg, Germany, and Lascelle Knighton, of 
Kentucky. He was married in 1897 to Miss Anna Furth. 

^ He is a Republican and has never held public office. 




David J. Sullivan 



HEN the Great North- 
ern Steamship Com- 
pany's magnificent Pa- 
c i f i c liner Dakota 
struck rocks upon the coast of Japan and became a total wreck, David J. 
Sullivan, the youthful purser of the Hill steamship proved himself the hero of 
the catastrophe. Due to his presence of mind and grasp of the situation many 
lives were saved that otherwise might have been sacrificed. 

^ Mr. Sullivan, when a mere boy, entered the serv- 
ice of the Great Northern Railway, in Minneapolis, and became the personal 
cashier for James J. Hill, then president of the system, and now Chairman 
of the Great Northern directorate. 

^ When the Minnesota and Dakota were placed upon the Pacific a 
longing for the sea took possession of the young cashier, and he was made 
one of the officers of the Dakota. 

<J After his experience with wreck Mr. Sullivan de- 
cided that he preferred land to water, and he with his brother, Frank Sulli- 
van, organized the Sullivan Contracting Company, with offices in the Leary 
Building, Seattle. This venture has been extremely successful, many impor- 
tant contracts for supplies, equipment and construction having been awarded 
to the concern. 



Bo Sweeney 




F for nothing else. Bo Sweeney 

ought to get into the hall of 

fame for owning the shortest 

name in the English language. 

Of course the name is really an inheritance, and Mr. Sweeney cannot claim 

any great credit for it, but it is nevertheless admirable and unique. 

•J Mr. Sweeney is a Democrat, a 
politician and an attorney. As any one of these three things he might lay 
claim to distinction. He once held public office in Colorado, being a mem- 
ber of the legislature of that state from 1893 to 1897. Otherwise, he has 
been content to take an active, if less conspicuous, part in affairs, and de- 
velop a fine law practice. For this profession he was equipped by the 
curriculum of Columbia University Law School. 

t^ Mr. Sweeney joined his fortunes with those ot 
Seattle in 1897, and in the same year was married to Miss Lillie E. Reeves. 
They have a son. Bo, Jr., aged eleven years. 

^ Mr. Sweeney is the son of Joshua Sweeney and Martha Weldon. 
He was born near Chilton, Henry County, Missouri, in 1863. Both his 
father and mother were natives of Kentucky. 



Charles T. Takahashi 



TO OWfN SWCH 




^MM F the United States and Japan could interchange more such enlight- 
II ened business men as Charles T. Takahashi, commercial relations 
H between the two nations would grow with surprising speed. Mr. 
Takahashi represents the highest and most advanced type of 
Oriental development, set down in a nation whose great idea is business 
and the making of money. In this environment Mr. Takahashi has not 
only inspired the confidence of his own countrymen all up and down the 
Pacific Coast, but he has gained the greatest good-will from the citizens of 
his adopted land. In addition he has prospered, as his business ventures 
have been guided by the soundest good sense and mature judgment. 
^ Mr. Takahashi is president of the Oriental Trading Company, which 
is one of the greatest importing and exporting concerns on the Coast; is 
president of the Oriental-American Bank, and is heavily interested in 
farming in different parts of the state. ^ For the last six years he has 
been president of the Japanese Association of Washington, and for ten 
years he has been an active member of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. 
•I He is young, too, as he was born in 1874, in Japan. After coming 
to America he attended the Puget Sound University, at Tacoma, for 
some time, and in 1 902 he married Takechiyo Omura. Mr. and Mrs. 
Takahashi have one child. The Takahashi home is at 507 Twenty- 
second avenue north. 



Judge B. J. Tallman 




1UDGE BOYD J. 
TALLMAN enjoys 
the distinction of having 
occupied a seat upon 
the superior bench of King 
County longer than any other 

of the distinguished jurists who wear the King County robes. It was in 
1 900 that he was first elevated to the dignity of the ermine, and twice 
since then has been returned by a handsome vote. Standing well not only 
with members of the bar, but with litigants as well, he undoubtedly can 
remain upon the judge's rostrum as long as he desires. ^ A native of 
Pennsylvania, Judge Tallman pursued an elective course in Washington 
and Jefferson colleges, and as a young lawyer came west to build himself 
a practice and a reputation. He practised with success in the Seattle 
of the '90's and his friends were pleased indeed that he so soon made 
his mark. He is regarded as one of the most dignified and careful judges 
in the State. ^ Judge Tallman's worst vice, perhaps, is that of model 
farming. He even goes so far as to raise chickens — partly for profit 
but chiefly for amusement. When the weary progress of the court cal- 
endar tires him out he hies himself to the farm — and returns fresh as a 
daisy. 



R. H. Thomson 



I Think ive 

5EEN SOME OF 1 
THAT S(AMP'S| 
WORK 
BEFORE 




EATTLE would not 
be the city it is today 
had it not been 
for R. H. Thom- 
son. He is known throughout the United States as the man who re- 
modeled Seattle. As City Engmeer almost continuously since Seattle 
was a village, he has made possible its wondrous commercial and building 
development by tearing down hills that were in the way, filling the de- 
pressions, and changmg entirely the contour of the city. 

^ No other municipality in 
the United States has spent so much money on mighty "regrade" projects 
as Seattle. Millions of cubic yards of earth moved from one place to 
another by huge steam shovels, or even mightier gushers of water, have 
attracted international attention. 

^ 1 he brains behind these stupendous tasks have 
been those of R. H. Thomson. He has not only foreseen the necessity 
of these works, but his trained engineering intelligence has demonstrated 
that seeming impossibilities need not daunt a city that is determined to be 
a commercial center of world importance. 

^ No man in Seattle has been more ruth- 
lessly assailed or bitterly attacked than City Engineer Thomson, yet he 
pursues the even tenor of his way, and those who disagree with him 
at the outset usually come to approve before the enterprise is completed. 
R. H. Thomson is one of Seattle's most valuable assets. 



Moritz Thomsen 



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aCV^ OT only the entire Pacific Coast and Mexico, but the Orient as 
II4I well, represent Moritz Thomsen's field of operations. He has 
H I done as much for the commerce and trade of Seattle as any other 
one man. Mr. Thomsen's first great success came as a manufacturer of 
flour. The Centennial Mills, of which he is president, are among the larg- 
est milling plants of the entire West. 

^ Not only is there an immense plant in Seattle, but also in 
Spokane, and Portland. Centennial flour is shipped in vast quantities 
across the Pacific to Japan, China and the Philippines. 

^ Mr. Thomsen is also president of the 
Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Company, which has several plants scattered 
through the Northwest, and at Renton operates the largest paving brick 
unit in the world, with an output of upwards of 50,000,000 paving brick 
annually. The company has an annual payroll of $ 1 ,000,000. 

CJ In late years Mr. Thomsen has become interested 
extensively in Mexican development enterprises, and is president of the 
Mexican-Pacific Railway. Another concern which he heads is the Seattle 
Grain Company. 

C| Mr. Thomsen is a native of Germany, with July 28, I 830, as his birth- 
day. Several years ago he bought the handsome Ranke home, at Madison 
Street and Terry Avenue, and has maintained its reputation as one of 
Seattle's fine residences. The family, consisting of Mrs. Thomsen, four 
daughters and a son, is prominent in Seattle society. 



Alexander Tinling 




aLEXANDER TINLING has come to be known as one of the most 
capable and efficient railway men on the Northern Pacific system. 
Years ago he began at the bottom of the official ladder, and his as- 
cent has been steady and sure. 
^ The Pacific Northwest began to hear of him first as general agent for 
the Northern Pacific Railway at Tacoma ; then he was transferred to Spo- 
kane, and when I. A. Nadeau, for many years general agent at Seattle, be- 
came director-general of the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Mr. Tinling 
was transferred again, to Seattle. His next promotion came when he was 
named as assistant general freight agent of the road, with headquarters in St. 
Paul. 

^ When he was removed from the western end of the Northern Pacific 
many felt the Northwest had lost a most valued official who so thoroughly 
understood conditions in the West that his presence would be sorely missed — 
and such was the case; but Mr. Tinling is proving so efficient in the East, 
with this same knowledge, that he is regarded as the right man in the right 
place. 



Harry Whitney Treat 




ARRY WHIT- 
NEY TREAT, 
of Seattle, one of 
the wealthy men of 
city, was born in 
Monroe, Wisconsin, in 1865. Prior to taking up his residence on the 
Pacific Coast, six years ago, he lived in New York, Chicago, Paris 
and London. ^ Mr. Treat is heavily interested in mining properties 
in British Columbia. He owns much valuable property in his own city, 
and also has the sole interest in a large tract of land in the northern part of 
Seattle, to which he built the Loyal Heights Railway, and which he is 
developing into one of the most beautiful parks and amusement resorts in 
the West. His interests embrace holdings in companies operating various 
enterprises, including the control of steamship lines to Alaska. He was 
recently elected President of the Pacific Trust Company. 

^ Mr. Treat is especially prominent as 
a patron of and heavy contributor to arts and sports. He is the prime 
mover in and President of the Seattle Horse Show organization. As a 
tandem and four-in-hand driver, Mr. Treat has no superior in the West ; 
he is an officer in many business and social organizations. 

^ A public spirited member of the Seattle 
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Treat is always ready to contribute 
from his means and with his services to public undertakings. He is 
particularly interested in the cultivation of friendly commercial and trade 
relations with the Orient, having made a close personal study of that 
subject. 




E. P. Tremper 



^^^ENERAL Manager of the Washington Title Insurance Com- 
^Jj pany, and vice-president of the Seattle Trust Company, Edward 
^^^ Payson Tremper is among the most prominent of Seattle's busi- 
ness men. He became particularly well known as a member 
of the firm of Osborne, Tremper & Company, which for several years 
occupied the second floor corner of the Alaska building. This eminently 
successful concern was merged into the other companies of which Mr. 
Tremper is an officer, and their offices are now in the Central building. 
^ Mr. Tremper has made a specialty of titles, and is regarded as an 
authority on all such subjects. The only public office he ever held was 
as register of the Seattle Land Office from 1897 to 1903. ^ The 
Tremper residence is one of the handsome homes on Beacon Hill. t| In 
1 884 Mr. Tremper married Miss Harriet Arnold, and to them have 
come three children. Mr. Tremper was born in Canton, III., in I860. 
His father, Abram E. Tremper, a native of Kinderhook, N. Y., was a 
college professor, and a minister of the English Lutheran church. His 
mother, Mrs. Catharine Tremper, came from Harrisburg, Ra. ^ Mr. 
Tremper takes a keen interest in the civic and commercial life of Seattle. 



William Pitt Trimble 




HEN William Pitt Trim- 
ble came from Kentucky 
to Seattle, the metropolis 
of Puget Sound had not 
entirely forsaken its infantile garb and its primitive fashions as the leading 
sawmill town of the North Pacific Coast. 

^ The Dennys still maintained their cow pas- 
ture on the block bounded by Union and University, First and Second; 
and Pike Street was far from being the bustling thoroughfare that it is 
today. It was then that Mr. Trimble showed business acumen — for he 
acquired the property at the southwest corner of Second Avenue and 
Pike Street. It has since developed into one of the most valuable in 
the city. Aside from his practice of the law, Mr. Trimble has shown 
a natural bent for politics. 

^ As to office holding, he has been among the many 
"called," instead of the few ''chosen." He was at one time willing 
to be Mayor of Seattle, but the people decided that John F. Miller 
was the man; and again Mr. Trimble was persuaded that he might 
grace the dignified Senate of the United States. 

^ At that interval of political unrest, forecast- 
ing the wave of progressiveism, he gracefully withdrew from the contest, 
and continues as one of Seattle's most prominent citizens in private life. 




Emlen P. Triol 



£MLEN P. TRIOL sells lumber to folks that build houses and is 
head of a concern which manufactures such necessary things as 
sashes and doors and shingles. 

^ He is a Philadelphian by birth, but Philadelphia proving too 
slow for him he removed to Seattle back in I 906. Mr. Triol was born in 
the city of soot and brotherly love. His father was Thomas M. Triol and 
his mother, Margaret Mooney Triol, both Philadelphians. 

^ Mr. Triol married Sarah M. King in 1 882. 
They have one son, Edward K. Triol. 

^ Mr. Triol is the vice president and treasurer of the Rainier Lum- 
ber & Shingle Co., and vice president of the Day Luellwitz Lumber Co. 
He is a Republican, but has been too busy selling lumber to seek public 
office. 



Clarence B. Tull 




Cms is a scientific research into the biographical phases of Clarence 
Brazamon Tull. It is scientific to be in keeping with Mr. Tuil's 
occupation, which is western manager of the Scientific American 
compilation department. His business is publishing the result of his 
compilations. 

q Mr. Tull was born at Windsor, III., June 3, 1875. His father, 
Brazamon D. Tull, was a native of Jackson, Tennessee. His mother, Mar- 
garet Carter Tull, was born at Abingdon, Virginia. 

tl Mr. Tull was married in 1903. 
The following year he came to Seattle as representative of the Scientific 
American. He is a member of the Republican party. 

^ Mr. Tull is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, 
Commercial Club and Rotary Club. He is also a member of the Seattle 
Golf and Country Club, a Scottish Rite Mason, and a Knight Templar. 




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4.^ 

^^^^lol INGUISHED alike as an author, as a banker, in his profession 
&4 1 as a mining engineer, and in the diplomatic service, M. Raymond 
^mf Auzias de Turenne is one of Seattle's most notable figures. Few 
men have had the variety of his experiences, and few have been ac- 
corded his versatility. Coming of a family which as chiefs of the "Gibe- 
lins" moved from Florence, Italy, to Languedoc, in Southern France, with 
Pope Gregoire X, in 1274, the Turenne ancestors built the Chateau de 
Tresques, and lived there for 500 years. 

t| Grenoble, France, in 1861 , was the birthplace of 
M. Auzias de Turenne, and he was graduated from the university there, in 
r880. Ten years later, in Montreal, he married Mile. Trottier de Beaubien, 
and four children have come to them, Aimar, Marguerite, Amaury and Leon. 

^ From I 885 to 1 896 he was an 
extensive breeder of thoroughbred horses, at the Fleur de Lys ranch in Da- 
kota, and in Montreal. Most of his books have been on American subjects, 
among them "Cow-Boy," which in 1897 was crowned by the French 
Academy. 

^ In 1 893 M. Auzias de Turenne was commissioner for the province of 
Quebec, at the Columbian Exposition, in Chicago, and from 1898 to 1905 
was consular agent for France in the Yukon territory. Coming to Seattle at 
the end of his term, he became vice president of the Bank for Savings, and 
later president of the Yukon Investment Company, which has just completed 
the handsome Lyon Building. 

^ He is a member of the American Institute of Mining En- 
gineers, of the National Geographic Society, of the Arctic Brotherhood, of 
the Alliance Francaise de Seattle, of the Rainier Club, of the Seattle Golf 
and Country Club, and the Seattle Hunt Club. 




Cecil H. Upper 



©NE of the leading spirits in the development of the southern part 
of Seattle, including the annexation of Georgetown to the larger 
municipality and the advancement of the important Duwamish 
River Improvement project, is Cecil H. Upper, president of the 
Citizens' Bank of Georgetown. Though established only in the year 
of the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, the bank has made most pleasing 
progress for so short a life. ^ Mr. Upper's experience in banking made 
him especially well qualified to assume the presidency of the new bank. 
He was with the old Boston National Bank, and later with the Washing- 
ton National, which was consolidated with the National Bank of Com- 
merce. Later he was with the Union Savings & Trust Company, and 
was sent to GeorgetovsTi when the Union Savines established a branch 
there. ^ Mr. Upper is a great automobilist and lover of the open air. 
He has an eleven-acre model farm on Mercer Island, in Lake Washing- 
ton, and gets much enjoyment from his residence there. He is also a 
heavy property owner in the southern part of the city. ^ Mr. Upper 
is a native of St. Thomas, Ont., coming to Seattle in 1890, and com- 
pleting his education in the Seattle high schools. 




Herbert S. Upper 



^A' ERBERT S. UPPER is one of Seattle's strong, substantial 

■1^ citizens. He stands high in the business world, and his fidelity 

^'^ to the better standards has brought his firm and general activities 

into enviable prominence. Making a specialty of real estate 

and investments, Mr. Upper has been brought mto close touch with men 

of affairs in the city and state, and is regarded as one who has "made good. " 

His offices are in the Leary Building, and his handsome home is at 1 807 

East Jefferson Street. 

^ Mr. Upper enjoys the out-doors, and for years has been a great 
lover of horses. Lately he has become addicted to the automobile, but 
he still keeps his stable, and finds the pleasure of the reins not a whit 
diminished . Also, he is a member of all the principal clubs — the Rainier, 
Golf and Country, the Seattle Athletic, the Seattle Automobile, etc. 
^ The Upper family came to Seattle from Ontario some twenty-one years 
ago. Equipped with an education finished at the Collegiate Institute, Mr. 
Upper entered right into business, and has been closely identified with Se- 
attle's marvelous growth. 




John B. Van Dyke 



O H N B. VAN 
DYKE, an attorney at 
law, is a specialist on 
insurance. Whereas the 
average man is hard put to it to 
distinguish between a twenty- 
year endowment policy and a 
straight life, Mr. Van Dyke can tell you in a minute the amount of proht 
and loss in schedules that look as involved as the Old Testament written 
in Sanskrit. 

^ Mr. Van Dyke knows so much about insurance law that he was made 
a member of the Washington insurance code commission, an office in which 
he served with distinction. 

^ Kane County, Illinois, claims the honor of being the birthplace 
of this insurance lawryer. The date is December 21, 1 863. He is a 
Republican. 

^ Mr. Van Dyke received a common school education and was graduated 
from Tilford Collegiate Academy in June, 1886. The following year he 
was married to Miss Allie M. Black, on January 27. They have one son, 
John B. Van Dyke, Jr., twenty years old. Mr. Van Dyke has lived in 
Seattle since April, 1902. 



E. C. Wagner 




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HEN E. C. Wagner was sent to Seattle from London, by 
the directors of the London & San Francisco Bank he wasn't 
so sure he'd hke the city upon the shores of Puget Sound — 
but now he's awfully glad he came. He thinks there's no 
place quite like Seattle — always, of course, leaving London out of con- 
sideration. ^ When the London & San Francisco Bank became the 
Bank of California, in 1905, Mr. Wagner was made manager, a posi- 
tion he doubtless will hold as long as he desires. ^ In the eight or 
more years that he has resided in Seattle Mr. Wagner has managed to 
keep free from matrimonial snares, and lives in luxurious bachelorhood 
at the San Marco. Some day he expects to build himself a handsome 
residence at The Highlands. ^ Mr. Wagner admits to being an auto- 
mobile enthusiast — with a reservation. "In other people's machines," 
he says laughingly. He is a member of all the leading clubs, and is 
warmly greeted wherever he goes. ^ The Bank of California has made 
most pleasing advances in business under Mr. Wagner's efficient manage- 
ment. 




Frank Waterhouse 



«IG steamships and stately sailing vessels ply in and out of Pacific 
and Oriental ports to do the business of Frank Waterhouse. Com- 
ing to Seattle in 1 898 he saw the great trade possibilities of this 
Pacific port and was one of the first to go after the Oriental and 
Island business that the Spanish-American war opened up. 

^ The son of Joseph and Elizabeth Water- 
house was born in Cheshire, England, August 8, 1867. He is a grad- 
uate of the College of Bowdon, England. 

^ Shipping engaged the attention of Mr. Waterhouse. With 
the organization of the Frank Waterhouse Co., he established a great Pa- 
cific commercial enterprise. Other business opportunities resulted in the 
organization of the Wellington Coal Co., Arlington Dock Co., West Coast 
Agencies and Frank Waterhouse & Employees Inc., all of which corpora- 
tions are presided over by Frank Waterhouse. 




Eugene W. Way 



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Am^^ what 



W. WAY" is one of the names 
you see stuck around on signs on 
ittie vacant land there is 
left. This should signify at once 
to the newcomer that Mr. Way is a prominent real estate dealer. He is. 

^ In addition to being a promi- 
nent real estate dealer, Mr. Way has found time to be other things. He hcis 
served as a member of the city council from the second ward for two terms. 
He is president of the Seattle Saddlery Co., as well as E. W. Way & Co. 
He is prominent in improvement club meetings, and is an enthusiast about 
the Beacon Hill district, which he believes to contain the finest real estate 
in the world. Yes, and he is noted for one other thing, he is one of the 
few really successful real estate men in town that hasn't bought an auto- 
mobile. He has never explained why. 

^ Mr. Way is the son of Wilson E. and Edna E. Way. His 
mother was the second while woman who came to Pierce County, Wiscon- 
sin. She was a native of Illinois. Mr. Way was born in Wisconsin in I 837. 

^ He came to Seattle in 1 888. In 
1878 he was married to Minnie M. Cowell of Wisconsin. They have five 
children, three boys and two girls. <I Besides serving as a member of the city 
council, Mr. Way was a member of the state legislature from I 896 to I 898. 



E. E. Webster 




CHERE isn't much about the "Hello" business that E. E. Webster 
doesn't know. For the last eight years — since 1903 — he's been 
secretary and general manager of the Independent Telephone 
Company, of Seattle, and before that for several years he was 
general manager of the Twin City Telephone Company, serving St. Paul 
and Minneapolis. ^ Mr. Webster once came near having his future 
spoiled by politics. His friends thought it would be a fine thing to have 
him mayor of Minneapolis, and he made a fine race, but lost out by not 
more than a hatful of ballots. He never has been heard to express great 
1 egret. Mr. Webster first gained prominence in Minneapolis as an at- 
torney. ^ The great majority of Seattle telephone users — and who isn't 
one? — feel eternally grateful to Mr. Webster and his associates for free- 
ing them from the dissatisfaction arising from a monopolistic telephone 
system. Mr. Webster takes his recreation at his magnificent home on 
the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The Webster place is regarded 
as one of the most beautiful country homes in the Northwest, amid its 
setting of lakes, woods and lofty mountains. 



Edgar L. Webster 




aMONG the Seattle men who know Alaska intimately, on account 
of a wide acquaintance with the people of that Territory, is Edgar 
L. Webster. He is engagmg and affable in manner, partly because he 
was born that way and partly because he has developed those quali- 
ties as a busmess asset. In this respect the personal equation stands him in 
good stead, since he is an insurance man, and his abilities in that direction 
have made him general agent for Alaska and Yukon Territory for the 
New York Life Insurance Company, a position which he has held for 
nearly thirteen years. ^ Through his business relations with the North, 
he became one of the organizers and a large owner in the Washington- 
Alaska Bank in Fairbanks, an institution that has shipped $20,000,000 
in virgin gold to Seattle. He has business property in Fairbanks, has 
mines in Dawson, dredging interests at Nome, and is a taxpayer in 
Seattle. ^ As a permanent resident of Seattle, he has given much 
time to the affairs of the Arctic Club, of which he is a trustee and a 
member of the house committee, as well as the largest individual owner 
of bonds of that social organization. ^ Mr. Webster was born May 
12. I860, in Minnesota, and came to Seattle in 1899. He is married. 



Chester F. White 




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CHE remarkable business 
success of Chester Field 
White has attracted the 
attention of such national 
magazines as The World's Work, 
which not long ago told of his 
progress and attainments as an object lesson showing what energy and 
ability could accomplish in the Northwest. 

^ To Mr. White's genius for organization 
and for carrying forward large projects is due the fact that Seattle boasts 
the magnificent buildings that today stand on the Old University tract, 
in the heart of the city — the White, the Henry and the Cobb buildings 
being eleven stories high, and among the handsomest on the Pacific 
Coast. 

^ Mr. White's advancement came through the lumber business. Once 
he was postmaster of the little town of Shelton, near Olympia. When 
the lumber company with which he was associated collapsed during the 
hard limes of the early '90's he bought a new suit, put up a bold front, 
and found a job with the wealthy Pope & Talbot interests, of San 
Francisco. He was sent northward as manager of the Gray's Harbor 
Commercial Company, at Cosmopolis, and he made it one of the biggest 
and most profitable concerns m Washington. 

^ His investments in timber made him 
independent, but he was not allowed to resign from the Gray's Harbor 
Company when he moved to Seattle. 

fl He is President of the Metropolitan Building Com- 
pany, Vice-President of the Metropolitan Bank, a director in other banks, 
and is known in all the clubs and commercial bodies. Also he is a great 
traveler. 



H. R. Williams 




^ggL R- WILLIAMS, President of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 

^H^ Puget Sound Line, enjoys the distinction of being the only 

1^ Hv executive head of a big railway," with headquarters in the 

Northwest. To Mr. Williams is due much of the credit for 

the marvelously swift construction of the Milwaukee's Puget Sound line, 

entailing the expenditure of some $200,000,000. 

^ A. J. Earling, President of the parent 
system, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, had long cherished the idea 
of projecting a line westward to the Pacific Coast, and when the time 
came for actual operations, Mr. Williams was the man selected to head 
the new enterprise. 

^ The Milwaukee's line from South Dakota to Seattle is one of 
the finest transcontinental railways ever built, and the heavy travel it is 
already receiving indicates the popularity il has achieved. 

^ Among railway men through- 
out the United States, Mr. Williams stands high. Not only has he been 
a notable acquisition to Seattle's business world, but he and his charming 
family have been welcomed most enthusiastically m a social way. 

^ Mr. Williams is a member of all the leading clubs. 



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L. E. Williams 



HE subject of this sketch al- 
though a resident of Seattle 
only since 1 908, is now one 
of the most prominent in- 
1, I vestment bankers and brokers in the 
' \ City, with offices on the second floor 
of the Leary Building. He is 
I President of the L. E. Williams 
Investment Company, Inc., making a 
specialty of bonds, bank 
stocks, controlling interests 
in country banks, real es- 
tate first mortgage loans, 
income realty and general 
agent and adjust- 
er insurance, all 
lines. He also 
makes special re- 
ports to large 
Eastern financial 

concerns as to 

growth, development and underlying conditions in the Pacific Northwest and 
therefore has a fund of valuable information at his command. ^ Mr. 
Williams is a native of Virginia, born at Roanoke in the year 1 866 and 
is a descendant of the very old and highly respected family of that name 
who settled in Clarke County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley, more 
than 1 50 years ago, many of the younger generation still living there 
and owning the old family estates. His parents moved to Richmond, 
Virginia, when he was a small boy, and later on to Baltimore, Maryland, 
and it was in the schools of these two cities that he received his education, 
standing at the head of his class. ^ After completing his education 
and becoming an expert accountant he became head bookkeeper for a 
large pig iron furnace company in Virginia, owned by Baltimore capi- 
talists and later, with others, entered the banking business, both National 
and State, which he successfully continued for eighteen years and on fre- 
quent business and pleasure trips to the Pacific Coast was attracted to 
make Seattle his future home by what he considered its present and future 
splendid business possibilities, coupled with the most delightful and health- 
ful climate in the world. ^ Mr. and Mrs. Williams have a prettj' 
home in the Capitol Hill district, are very domestic in taste, firmly be- 
lieve that rest is rust, very fond of outdoor sports, such as fishing and 
hunting, and if they have a fad it is for these things and the collection of 
rare furs. 



Eugene T. Wilson 




CHERE was a time when anyone who wished to gain information 
about banks and banking in the Pacific Northwest would go to Eu- 
gene T. Wilson. In that particular, he was just about the biggest 
man to be found in this portion of the country, for he was national 
bank examiner. 

^ He was most creditably active in that field, and probably no man was 
better known for a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the science of 
finance. At the close of his service under the government, his abilities in 
the occupation where he had served with signal credit to himself were rec- 
ognized in his selection as vice president of the National Bank of Commerce 
of Tacoma, a place he continues to fill. 

^ Mr. Wilson was born at Madison, Wis., 
December II, 1852. He was educated in the common schools. He is a 
member of the Arctic Club, Seattle; and fraternally is a Mason, having been 
elevated successively to membership in the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Knights 
Templar and Shrine. He is married. 




C. H. Winders 



ftLTHOUGH only thirty-three years old, C. H. Winders has proved 
his remarkable capabilities as an attorney for large interests, suc- 
ceeding Judge Carroll B. Graves as Seattle counsel for the Northern 
Pacific Railway Company. 
^ All his friends declare that the next few years will see him develop into 
one of the leading attorneys of the Pacific Coast, and the past seems to 
justify this prediction. The large interests of a great railway system at its 
chief western city pass through his hands, and his ability to cope with large 
problems has repeatedly demonstrated his worth to the higher officials of 
his company. 

^ Mr. Winders occupies a suite of offices in the Lowman building. The 
Winders family made its home for many years in Illinois, Aledo, in that 
state, being the birthplace of the Seattle attorney. His father, William Win- 
ders, was a native of New Salem, O., and his mother, whose maiden name 
was Miss Kate E. Detwiler, was born in Pennsylvania. 

^ The young man attended the University of Illinois 
and later was graduated from the Columbian University. He came to 
Seattle in 1903. So far he has escaped the matrimonial net. 



Dr. E. W. Young 




M^R. E. WEL mm,;/^ ^q^ YOUNG, though still with- 
•T I our great wei I ^^^ ght of years upon his shoulders, has 

^^^ gained a foremost place in the medical profession of Seattle and the 
State of Washington. IJ From his boyhood home in Minneapolis, 
Dr. Young attended the University of Minnesota, medical department, and 
then completed his professional education in Chicago, New York and 
abroad. Coming to Seattle in i 890, Dr. Young practiced with his father, 
Dr. Thomas M. Young, until the death of the elder physician in July, 1910. 
^ Dr. Thomas M. Young was a past commander of the Loyal Legion of 
the state, and had been prominent in the G. A. R. The son is also 
a member of the Loyal Legion, is a member of the King County, of the 
Washington, and of the American Medical Associations, and he is also a 
past president of the Washington State Homeopathic Society. Under the 
appointment of the governor of the state Dr. Young is president of the 
State Board of Medical Examiners. ^ In fraternal organizations he has 
gained prominence, being a 32d degree Mason, a Mystic Shriner, and hav- 
ing held the highest office in the Knights of Pythias order for this state. Dr. 
and Mrs. Young and their two children have a handsome home at 749 
Hanard Avenue North. Dr. Young's offices are in the Cobb Building. 



Joseph H. Young 




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HEN the Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska Syndicate obtained the 
services of Joseph H. Young to be president of the Alaska Steam- 
ship Company and vice president and general manager of the 
Copper River & Northwestern Railway, the organization was 
fortunate in securing one of the best qualified and most thoroughly equipped 
railway and transportation men in the entire West. ^ 1 he story of Mr. 
Young's rise from office boy and general roustabout at the Sandy, Utah, 
station, to his present eminence, illustrates how the youngster with determi- 
nation and grit can still reach the highest positions of trust. ^ The station 
boy was soon assistant ticket agent for all the transcontinental railways en- 
tering Ogden, Utah, then a great junction point; then he was travehng pas- 
senger agent of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway for the Intermountain 
territory; superintendent of the Utah Central railway from Salt Lake to 
Park City; next, superintendent of the Union Pacific in Utah; then general 
superintendent of the Gould properties in Utah; general manager of the 
Colorado & Southern, at Denver; general superintendent of the 'Frisco sys- 
tem, with headquarters at Springfield, Mo., and lastly, before he came to 
Seattle, he was general superintendent of the Southern Pacific, with his office 
in San Francisco. Q Now Mr. Young is entrusted with the executive man- 
agement of the great Morgan-Guggenheim transportation operations. He 
has always been socially prominent, and is a clubman and high Mason, and 
also is a great reader and student. 




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